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Ragheb el-Sergany

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About Ragheb el-Sergany

Ragheb el-Sergany (Raghib al-Hanafi Raghib al-Sirjani), born in 1964 in El-Mahalla El-Kubra, Gharbia Governorate, is an Egyptian urological surgeon and historian. A professor at Cairo University's Faculty of Medicine, he is widely known as a popular writer on Islamic history through his lectures, television series, dozens of books and the Islam Story website he oversees.

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Medicine

He graduated with honours from Cairo University's Faculty of Medicine in 1988 and specialised in urology and kidney and urinary tract surgery. After working as a visiting instructor at Tulane University in New Orleans (1994–1997), he completed a doctorate in 1998 under joint Egyptian-American supervision and went on to become professor of urology at Cairo University. He is a member of the American Urological Association and the Egyptian Urological Association.

Islamic history

Alongside his medical career, he completed the memorisation of the Quran in 1991 and devoted himself to in-depth study of Islamic history. His lectures and series, broadcast on Iqraa, Al-Resalah and Al-Nas and later online, present Muslim history as a source of lessons for the present.

He has published more than sixty books, several of them translated, including The Story of the Tatars (2006), Mercy in the Life of the Prophet (2009), What Muslims Gave the World (2009) and The Story of al-Andalus (2011). He oversees the Islam Story website (Qissat al-Islam), devoted to Islamic history and civilisation, and is a member of the International Union of Muslim Scholars.

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Egypt

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