Dr Muzaffar Iqbal

The Awqaf Foundation of South Africa is hosting a very special guest in the country this week - Muzaffar Iqbal,  the founder-president of Center For Islamic Sciences in Canada. Dr Iqbal is the editor of the Integrated Encyclopedia of the Qur’an, the first english-language reference work on the Qur’an based on fourteen centuries of Muslim reflection and scholarship. Dr Iqbal received his Ph.D. chemistry in 1983, and then left the field of experimental science to fully devote himself to study Islam, its spiritual, intellectual and scientific traditions. Dr Iqbal has written, translated, and edited twenty-three books and published nearly one hundred papers on various aspects of Islam. He joins us online from Johannesburg