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Sami Awad Aldeeb Abu-Sahlieh
سامي عوض الذيب أبو ساحلية
Sami Aldeeb in his library
Born (1949-09-05) 5 September 1949 (age 74)
Zababdeh, West Bank
Alma materUniversity of Fribourg
OccupationLawyer
Notable workQur'an in chronological order
Websitesami-aldeeb.com

Sami Awad Aldeeb Abu-Sahlieh (in Arabic: سامي عوض الذيب أبو ساحلية / Sāmy ʿwḍ ʾĀd-dyb ʾĀbw-Sāḥlyh) (born 5 September 1949 in Zababdeh, near Jenin in the West Bank) is a Swiss Palestinian lawyer.[1]

Aldeeb was the head of the Arab and Islamic Law department at the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law from 1980 to 2009. He now directs the Center of Arab and Islamic law and teaches at universities in Switzerland, France and Italy.[citation needed]

He is the author of books and articles on Arab and Islamic law. In 2008 he published a bilingual edition of the Quran (Arabic - French) classifying the chapters (surahs) in chronological order according to Al-Azhar, with reference to variations, abrogations and Jewish and Christian writings. He is currently preparing a similar edition in Italian and English. He also translated the Swiss constitution into Arabic for the Swiss Confederation.

Biography

Born to a family of Christian peasants in Zababdeh, near Jenin, he attended primary school in his village (1956–61) before joining the Minor Seminary of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem in Beit-Jala, near Bethlehem (1961–65). Four years later he left to attend a course in tailoring at the Salesian Technical School of Bethlehem (1965–1968), and worked in the tailoring trade in Jenin while, at the same time, working for the International Committee of the Red Cross. In 1970 he immatriculated at Jenin as a self-taught student, and thereafter obtained a scholarship from the l'Œuvre Saint-Justin in Fribourg, to study in Switzerland.

In April 1974, he received his law degree from the University of Fribourg, and then went on to study for a doctorate of Laws at the University of Fribourg and enrolled in the Graduate Institute of International Studies at Geneva to simultaneously study for an Honours degree in Political Science. He was awarded a degree from the Graduate Institute at Geneva in January 1976.[citation needed]

Researching for his doctoral thesis, he spent a year in Egypt. He defended his thesis in December 1978 at the Faculty of Law in Fribourg. During his studies he received a grant from l'Œuvre Saint-Justin in Fribourg (1970–1977) and a grant from the Swiss Confederation (1977–1979).[citation needed] He was a federal civil servant at the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law in Lausanne from 1980 to 2009, heading the Department of Arab and Islamic law.[citation needed] In 2009, he opened his own Center of Arab and Islamic law.[citation needed]

Teaching and conferences

Aldeeb taught Arab and Islamic Law in various universities.[2][citation needed]

Positions

He expressed various positions critical of Islam, for example, he positioned himself for a ban on the erection of minarets in Switzerland, since in his opinion the constitution allows prayer, but not shouting.[3] He holds the theory that the Quran was written by a rabbi.[4]

Awards

Publications

Aldeeb’s publications consist of about thirty books and more than 200 articles on Arab and Islamic Law, in various languages:[5]

External links

References

  1. ^ "Home". sami-aldeeb.com.
  2. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). www.sami-aldeeb.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 November 2011. Retrieved 12 January 2022.((cite web)): CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. ^ Sami Aldeeb (8 October 2009). "Oui à l'initiative sur les minarets". Retrieved 24 February 2021.
  4. ^ Sami Aldeeb, traducteur du Coran en français, en anglais et en italien
  5. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-04-19. Retrieved 2011-11-14.((cite web)): CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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