Louay Fatoohi

"Paradoxically, the knowledge of any person is determined less by what they know and more by what they don’t"

Louay Fatoohi was born in Baghdad, Iraq, in 1961. He and his wife migrated to the UK in 1992. He lives in Birmingham, England. He obtained a BSc in physics from Baghdad University, Iraq, in 1984 and a PhD in astronomy from Durham University, UK, in 1998.

Originally from a Christian family, Louay reverted to Islam in his early ‎twenties. In addition to being his faith ‎of choice and way of life, Islam is ‎for him a subject of deep intellectual interest. He is interested in ‎Qur’anic ‎and Islamic studies in general, but his main areas of research are as follows: ‎

• The comparative study of history in the Qur’an, Jewish and Christian ‎scriptures, and independent ‎historical sources‎
• Sufism
• The history of the Qur’anic text and revelation
• Qur’anic exegesis

Louay is a prolific author who has published over twenty-five books in English and Arabic in Islamic studies. He has also published over twenty research papers in cosmology, applied historical astronomy, and the Islamic calendar.

Author's books

Tawhid According to Sufis

A translation and commentary on beautiful and profound Sufi sayings on various aspects of tawhid. These words stress that Allah is beyond human cognition and perception. Sufis stress that true glorification of Allah requires acknowledging this limitation and accepting divine self-disclosure without excessive rationalisation.

 

The Crucifixion of Jesus

This study shows that the belief in Jesus’ crucifixion is a matter of faith, not historical evidence. The book explains the serious issues in the Gospel narratives and compares them with the Qur’an’s assertion that Jesus was not crucified.

 

Shaikh Muhammad al-Muhammad al-Kasnazan al-Husayni

This is the biography of a prominent personality of Islam and Sufism, Shaikh Muhammad al-Muhammad al-Kasnazan al-Husayni, the Master of Tariqa Kasnazaniyya, one of the largest Sufi Tariqas. The book presents the Shaikh’s life in the context of explaining the Sufi approach to drawing near to Allah and expounds Sufism through the history of the Shaikh.