Researcher Earns Doctorate in Comparative Jurisprudence

Researcher Fahd Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ahmadi has been awarded a Doctorate in Comparative Jurisprudence from the Department of Jurisprudence and its Fundamentals at the Islamic University of Minnesota. This follows the successful defense of his dissertation titled "Rulings of Disability in Islamic Jurisprudence - A Comparative Study".

The public defense was held on Saturday, June 8, 2024, at 9:30 PM Makkah time, by the Deanship of Graduate Studies at the Islamic University of Minnesota, Main Campus, College of Sharia and Law. The examining committee consisted of Dr. Juma Hashem Al-Hussain Al-Ashram, faculty member at the Islamic University of Minnesota, as supervisor and rapporteur, Professor Dr. Salah Faraj, Head of the Department of Jurisprudence and its Fundamentals at the Islamic University of Minnesota, as internal examiner, and Associate Professor Dr. Ali Abdullah Mohammed Al-Hussein from the University of the Holy Quran and Islamic Sciences and the University of Nilein, as external examiner.

The examining committee commended the high academic level of the dissertation and unanimously decided to award the researcher a Doctorate in Comparative Jurisprudence with distinction.