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Mohamed Serag

  • Position: Professor
  • Department: Sheikh Hassan Abbas Sharbatly Department of Arab and Islamic Civilizations
  • Email: mohserag@aucegypt.edu
Brief Biography

Mohamed Serag is a professor emeritus at the Sheikh Hassan Abbas Sharbatly Department of Arab and Islamic Civilizations at The American University in Cairo (AUC). Serag was a professor and head of the Islamic Law Department at the Alexandria University Faculty of Law, Egypt; a visiting professor at Sana’a University in Yemen; chair of the Department of Islamic Law at Cairo University; assistant and associate professor of law at the International Islamic University in Islamabad; and associate professor of Islamic Studies at Cairo University. He authored, translated, and co-edited numerous books on Islamic law, including books on the Islamic law of trusts; Islamic legal theory and practice; Islamic laws of contract, inheritance, and bequests; the Islamic banking system; and torts in Islam.

Translation

  • Mohamed Serag (Muhammad Ahmad Siraj) Muhammad Khalid Masud's book, Dispensing Justice in Islam: Qadis and Their Judgements, titled Iqamat Al-'Adalah, is currently in press by Markaz Nuhud lil-Dirasat wa al-Buhuth in Kuwait and will appear in the coming weeks.

Monograph

Publications

  • Cairo University, BA 1966
  • Cairo University, MA 1971
  • Cairo University, PhD 1976