Al-Mus'haf Al-Murattal (As-Susi) – Waleed Idrees Al-Maneese

Al-Mus'haf Al-Murattal

About Waleed Idrees Al-Maneese

Sheikh Waleed Idrees Al-Maneese (Walid Idris al-Minisi), born in Alexandria, is an Egyptian scholar and Quran reciter based in Minnesota, in the United States. He holds a doctorate in Islamic jurisprudence and is imam and board president of the Dar al-Farooq Islamic Center, vice-president of the Islamic University of Minnesota and a senior member of the Permanent Fatwa Committee of the Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America (AMJA).

Education

After a degree in Arabic language from Alexandria University, he earned a master's in Islamic jurisprudence, summa cum laude, from the American Open University, and a doctorate in the same field from the Graduate Theological Foundation. He memorised the Quran in the ten readings by way of the Shatibiyya and the Durra, as well as by way of the Tayyiba, and also completed the four "irregular" (shadhdh) readings. The scholars he studied with include Sheikh Ibn Baz, Sheikh Ibn 'Uthaymin and Sheikh Ibn Jibrin.

Work and writings

Besides his roles at Dar al-Farooq, the Islamic University of Minnesota and AMJA, he sits on the board of the North American Imams Federation. His writings deal with establishing the sighting of the new moon (his doctoral thesis) and with the impact of differences among the fourteen readings on creed and law (his master's thesis); he has also written didactic poems on inheritance law and on the science of recitation, and compiled the fatwas of Sheikh Abd al-Razzaq 'Afifi.

He has recorded the complete Quran in the reading of Hafs 'an 'Asim and also recites in other transmissions, including that of al-Susi from Abu 'Amr.

Waleed Idrees Al-Maneese