Zaghloul al najjar biography of albert

Egyptian geologist and scholar

Zaghloul Ragheb Mohammed Al Naggar (Arabic: زغلول النجار, (IPA:[zæɣˈluːlennɑɡˈɡɑːɾˤ]), born 17 November 1933), also known as Zaghloul El-Naggar,^[2] is an Egyptian geologist, Muslim scholar, and author.

The main theme of El-Naggar's books has been science in Quran; his philosophy of science is blended with religion. He left his academic career to become the Chairman of Committee of Scientific Notions in the Qur'an, Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs, Cairo, Egypt.

Personal life

El-Naggar received his bachelor's degree from the University of Cairo. He obtained his PhD in geology from the University of Wales in the United Kingdom in 1963 where his thesis title was "Geology and stratigraphic palaeontology of the Esna-Idfu Region, Nile Valley, Egypt, U.A.R.".^[3] El-Naggar is an elected Fellow of the Islamic Academy of Sciences (1988), the Geological Society of Egypt and the American Associa