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Abdul Aziz bin Ali al-Harbi () is a Saudi Arabian
Islamic scholar In Islam, the ''ulama'' ( ; also spelled ''ulema''; ; singular ; feminine singular , plural ) are scholars of Islamic doctrine and law. They are considered the guardians, transmitters, and interpreters of religious knowledge in Islam. "Ulama ...
and associate professor at Umm al-Qura University in
Mecca Mecca, officially Makkah al-Mukarramah, is the capital of Mecca Province in the Hejaz region of western Saudi Arabia; it is the Holiest sites in Islam, holiest city in Islam. It is inland from Jeddah on the Red Sea, in a narrow valley above ...
. He is one of the founders and the current president of the Arabic Language Academy in Mecca.أ.د / عبد العزيز بن علي الحربي
Official website of the Academy, 9 February 2015. Accessed 8 November 2016.


Career

A native of Mecca, Harbi memorized the entirety of the
Qur'an The Quran, also romanized Qur'an or Koran, is the central religious text of Islam, believed by Muslims to be a revelation directly from God ('' Allāh''). It is organized in 114 chapters (, ) which consist of individual verses ('). Besides ...
by the age of eleven.Dr. Abdul Aziz al-Harbi, ''Tawjih mushkil al-qira`at al-'ashariya al-farashiya lughatan wa tasfiran wa i'raban'', back cover. 1st. ed.
Riyadh Riyadh is the capital and largest city of Saudi Arabia. It is also the capital of the Riyadh Province and the centre of the Riyadh Governorate. Located on the eastern bank of Wadi Hanifa, the current form of the metropolis largely emerged in th ...
: Dar Ibn Hazm, 2003.
Harbi earned a
Bachelor of Arts A Bachelor of Arts (abbreviated B.A., BA, A.B. or AB; from the Latin ', ', or ') is the holder of a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the liberal arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines. A Bachelor of Arts deg ...
degree in
Exegesis Exegesis ( ; from the Ancient Greek, Greek , from , "to lead out") is a critical explanation or interpretation (philosophy), interpretation of a text. The term is traditionally applied to the interpretation of Bible, Biblical works. In modern us ...
of the
Qur'an The Quran, also romanized Qur'an or Koran, is the central religious text of Islam, believed by Muslims to be a revelation directly from God ('' Allāh''). It is organized in 114 chapters (, ) which consist of individual verses ('). Besides ...
, known to Muslims as
Tafsir Tafsir ( ; ) refers to an exegesis, or commentary, of the Quran. An author of a ''tafsir'' is a ' (; plural: ). A Quranic ''tafsir'' attempts to provide elucidation, explanation, interpretation, context or commentary for clear understanding ...
, from Islamic University of Madinah in 1989. Nine years later, he completed a
Master of Arts A Master of Arts ( or ''Artium Magister''; abbreviated MA or AM) is the holder of a master's degree awarded by universities in many countries. The degree is usually contrasted with that of Master of Science. Those admitted to the degree have ...
degree in the Muslim prophetic tradition, known as the
Sunnah is the body of traditions and practices of the Islamic prophet Muhammad that constitute a model for Muslims to follow. The sunnah is what all the Muslims of Muhammad's time supposedly saw, followed, and passed on to the next generations. Diff ...
, at Umm al-Qura University, where he would eventually complete his
Doctorate of Philosophy A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, DPhil; or ) is a terminal degree that usually denotes the highest level of academic achievement in a given discipline and is awarded following a course of graduate study and original research. The name of the deg ...
in Qur'anic exegesis in 2001. He was promoted to the rank of associate professor at Umm al-Qura in 2006, and currently teaches exegesis. He is also a member of the university's academic board. Harbi also has an
Ijazah An ''ijazah'' (, "permission", "authorization", "license"; plural: ''ijazahs'' or ''ijazat'') is a license authorizing its holder to transmit a certain text or subject, which is issued by someone already possessing such authority. It is particul ...
authorization in all ten
Qira'at In Islam, (pl. ; ) refers to the ways or fashions that the Quran, the holy book of Islam, is recited. More technically, the term designates the different linguistic, lexical, phonetic, morphological and syntactical forms permitted with rec ...
, or variant methods of reciting the Qur'an, with a complete chain of narration going back to the original reciters of the Qur'an. The majority of his published works, however, have been within the field of the
Arabic language Arabic (, , or , ) is a Central Semitic languages, Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic languages, Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) assigns lang ...
, especially in regard to Arabic
rhetoric Rhetoric is the art of persuasion. It is one of the three ancient arts of discourse ( trivium) along with grammar and logic/ dialectic. As an academic discipline within the humanities, rhetoric aims to study the techniques that speakers or w ...
.


Awards

On September 21, 2022, he received the King Salman Global Academy for Arabic Language Award in the category of Promoting Linguistic Awareness.


Books


He authored a collection of books and theses in various fields, including

* In the Science of Hadith: # Guidance on the Difficulties in the Ten Arabic Readings (Printed) # The Pauses and Stoppings in the Qur'an (Printed) # The Saktat of Hafs, from the Shatibiyyah Path and their Explanation (Printed) # Al-Jazariyyah Expounded (A Commentary on Al-Jazari’s Poem on Tajweed) (Printed) # The Effect of Differences in the Qur'an on Pauses and Stopping Points (Printed) # The Orientalist’s Commentary on the Small Book of Weak Hadith by Al-Bukhari (Printed) # The Explanation of the Orientalist's Commentary (Printed) * In Jurisprudence and its Fundamentals: # Summary of the Fatwas of Imam Ibn Taymiyyah (Printed) # Al-Mustafa in Islamic Jurisprudence (Printed) # The Cloudy Path (A Book on Inheritance Law) (Printed) # The Summary of Fiqh Principles (Printed) # Matters from Fiqh Novels According to the Methodology of the Ahl al-Zahir (Not yet printed) * In Tafsir (Qur'anic Exegesis): # Handshakes with Two Hands (Printed) # Pilgrimage Once in a Lifetime (Printed) # An Investigation into a Part of Al-Nasafi’s Tafsir (Doctoral Thesis) # The Face of the Day that Reveals the Meanings of the Words of the One Who is the Omnipotent (Printed) # The Middle Face of the Day, Four Volumes (Currently in Printing) * In Syntax (Grammar): # The Easy Explanation of Ibn Malik's Alfiyyah (Printed) # The Simplified Commentaries on the Ajrumiyyah Text (Printed) # The Essence of the Alfiyyah (Ibn Malik's Alfiyyah) (Printed) # The Olive Tree with its Explanation (A Brief Poem) (Printed) * In Morphology (Sarf): # The Partitioning of the Qur'an (Printed) # The Meaning of the Spirit in the Qur'an (Printed) # The Qura’blānah in the Science of Morphology (Printed) # The Brief Explanation of the Words in the Lami’ah of the Actions (Printed) * In Creed and Sects: # Al-Kifayah in Creed, Sects, and Schools of Thought (Printed) # Guidance to the Meanings of the Verses of Al-Kifayah (Printed) # In Linguistics and its Jurisprudence: # The Explanation of the Poem of the Elderly Woman on Verbal Ambiguity (Printed) * In Prosody (Ilm al-'Arud): # The Prescribed Share in the Science of Prosody (Printed) * In Various Sciences and Knowledge: # What Blows and What Happens, A Poem and Its Explanation (Printed) # The Raa'iya Poem on Knowledge and Arts, with its Explanation (In printing) # The Concise Guide in Research, Investigation, and Writing (Printed) # Summary of Peer-Reviewed Research on Mecca Al-Mukarramah (at the Institute of Scientific Research, Umm Al-Qura University) (Not yet printed) # Memoirs (Printed) # Secrets of the Soul, Questions and Revelations (Printed) # Between the Two Shores, A Collection of Sermons (Printed) # From the Side of the Valley, A Collection of Sermons (Printed) # Provision for the Journey, A Collection of Sermons (Printed) # Insight and Remembrance, A Collection of Sermons (In printing) # The Effectiveness of Terminological Definitions in the Sciences of Sharia and Arabic (Printed) # Short Fatwas (Printed) # The Mystical, A Poetic Enigma (Printed) # Pages, A Collection of Letters (Printed) # Fear in the Life of Mother Musa (Peace be Upon Her) (Printed) # An Alfiyyah in Medicine (Not yet compiled) # The Second Journey of "What Blows and What Happens" (Being collected) # Seven Sheets and Eight Research Papers (Printed) # A Brief History (Not yet printed) # The Ultimate Goal (The Stick) (Printed) # Keys to the Passage (Explanation of Ibn Duraid) (Printed) # The Amazing (Printed) # The Scene (Printed) # Arabic, the Intelligence (Printed) # Fatwas in Language and Tafsir (Printed) # The Journey to the Lami'ah of Al-Shanfarā (Printed) * In Language Correction and Spelling: # The Fault in Speech: Correcting and Criticizing Common Words and Sentences (Printed) # The Engraving in Spelling Rules and Punctuation Marks (Printed) * In Rhetoric: # The Easy Rhetoric (Printed) # The Poetic Structure of Praise for the Intercessor (Printed) # The Embellishment of the Poetic Structure (Printed) # Placing the Obvious in the Position of the Hidden (Printed) * In Literature: # The One with Sleeves (Literary Assemblies) (Printed) # Comments on "The Collar of the Dove" by Ibn Hazm (Printed) # The One with Beauty (Annual Poems on the Arabic Language) (In printing) # A Collection of Poems (Not yet compiled) # Details of Sentences (Explanation of the Lami'ah of Ibn al-Wardi) (Printed) # Official and Literary Correspondence (In printing) # The Advisor in Explaining Ibn al-Qanas’s Poem (Printed) # The One with Beauty (Poems on the Arabic Language) (In printing) * In Lexicography: # The Jallnblaq Book (An Introduction to Language Dictionaries) (Printed)


References

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