Shaykh Ibrahim Salah al-Hudhud إبراهيم صلاح الهدهد

Ibrahim Salah al-Sayed Sulaiman al-Hudhud hafidhahullah is a contemporary Egyptian scholar specializing in Arabic rhetoric and literary criticism, born on 5 May 1964 in Tuhla village in Qalyubiyya Governorate, Egypt. He pursued his entire academic formation at al-Azhar University, graduating with distinction from the Cairo Faculty of Arabic Language in 1987, completing a master's degree in 1991 on the diversity of Qur'anic similes, and earning a doctorate with first-class honors in 1994 on the relationship between openings and objectives in the Qur'an. He joined the Faculty of Arabic Language as a teaching assistant and advanced through the academic ranks to full professor of rhetoric and criticism. He served as Dean of the Faculty and Vice President of al-Azhar University for Academic Affairs before being appointed acting President of al-Azhar University in December 2015, a post he held until February 2017. His published output exceeds twenty works covering Qur'anic rhetoric, Arabic style, and classical text editing, including al-Bayan fi Nur al-Qur'an (1995), Uslub al-Madh wa-l-Dhamm fi l-Dhikr al-Hakim (1998), and Sharh Manzumat Ibn Zurayq li-Muthallath Qutrub (2003, co-authored with Ahmad al-Khayr), a scholarly commentary on the classical Arabic philological poem versifying Qutrub's lexical triads.