Muhammād Al-Hasān bin Al-Deddew Al-Shanqītī (
Arabic: محمد الحسن بن الددو الشنقيطي) born 31 October 1963 in
Boutilimit, is a Mauritanian Muslim scholar, author, writer, and poet.[1] He is the President of O'lama Information center, and the President of 'Abdallah ibn Yasin University.[2][3][4] He is also head of the country's Center for the Development of Scholars.[5] In 2014 he was the Vice President of the
International Union of Muslim Scholars, and he is still a member of it.[6][7][8]
Early life and studies
He was raised in an academic family. His grandfather was Muhammad 'Ali bin Abd-Alwadud, who was a Muslim scholar and his first tutor.[9] He stayed close to him until his death in 1982.[10][11][12]
He started studying and memorizing the
Quran when he was 5 years old with his parents, and finished the memorization of the whole Quran before he reached 10 years of age. He studied the
Ten qira'at of
Quran with his mother, then he learned the
Hadith.[13]
He came to
Gaza in December 2012, and gave a speech and spoke on behalf of the scholars of the Islamic nation on the 25th anniversary of the founding of the
Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas). The festival was attended at that time by the movement’s senior leaders and its political leader at that time
Khaled Meshaal.[27]
In Media
He has many important interviews on
Al Jazeera Arabic TV, and
Al resallah Channel, and Kaaf channel, and many other TV channels.