Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad of Jordan (born October 15, 1966 in Amman, Jordan

Jordan

Jordan , officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan , Al-Mamlaka al-Urduniyya al-Hashemiyya) is a kingdom on the East Bank of the River Jordan. The country borders Saudi Arabia to the east and south-east, Iraq to the north-east, Syria to the north and the West Bank and Israel to the west, sharing...

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Jordan

Jordan , officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan , Al-Mamlaka al-Urduniyya al-Hashemiyya) is a kingdom on the East Bank of the River Jordan. The country borders Saudi Arabia to the east and south-east, Iraq to the north-east, Syria to the north and the West Bank and Israel to the west, sharing...

ian prince, professor of philosophy, and is a direct descendant of the Prophet Muhammad

Muhammad

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. He is the son of Prince Muhammad bin Talal of Jordan and his first wife, Princess Firyal. He is the grandson of the King Talal of Jordan

Talal of Jordan

Talal I bin Abdullah 26 February 1909 – 7 July 1972) was the second King of Jordan from 20 July 1951 until forced to abdicate in favour of his son Hussein due to health reasons on 11 August 1952....

.

Education

• Al-Azhar University
  Al-Azhar University
  Al-Azhar University is an educational institute in Cairo, Egypt. Founded in 970~972 as a madrasa, it is the chief centre of Arabic literature and Islamic learning in the world. It is the oldest degree-granting university in Egypt. In 1961 non-religious subjects were added to its curriculum.It is...
  
  , College of Usul al-Din, Cairo (2007–2010)

PhD ('Alimmayah) in Islamic Philosophy, awarded highest honors on January 16, 2010.

Thesis title: Love in the Holy Qur'an.

• Cambridge University, Trinity College
  Trinity College, Cambridge
  Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Trinity has more members than any other college in Cambridge or Oxford, with around 700 undergraduates, 430 graduates, and over 170 Fellows...
  
  : (1988–1989; 1990–1993)

PhD (Cantab.) in Modern and Medieval Languages and Literatures (July 1993)

Thesis title: "What is Falling in Love?: A Study of the Literary Archetype of Love."

• Princeton University
  Princeton University
  Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....
  
  : (1984–1988)

B.A., Comparative Literature (June 1988).

• Harrow School
  Harrow School
  Harrow School, commonly known simply as "Harrow", is an English independent school for boys situated in the town of Harrow, in north-west London.. The school is of worldwide renown. There is some evidence that there has been a school on the site since 1243 but the Harrow School we know today was...
  
  : (1979–1984)

'O' and 'A' Levels.

Official Work

• Chief Advisor to H.M. King Abdullah II
  Abdullah II of Jordan
  Abdullah II ibn al-Hussein is the reigning King of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. He ascended the throne on 7 February 1999 after the death of his father King Hussein. King Abdullah, whose mother is Princess Muna al-Hussein, is a member of the Hashemite family...
  
   for Religious and Cultural Affairs and Personal Envoy of H.M. King Abdullah II
  Abdullah II of Jordan
  Abdullah II ibn al-Hussein is the reigning King of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. He ascended the throne on 7 February 1999 after the death of his father King Hussein. King Abdullah, whose mother is Princess Muna al-Hussein, is a member of the Hashemite family...
  
  .

(October 6, 2011 to present.)

• Special Advisor to and Personal Envoy of H.M. King Abdullah II
  Abdullah II of Jordan
  Abdullah II ibn al-Hussein is the reigning King of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. He ascended the throne on 7 February 1999 after the death of his father King Hussein. King Abdullah, whose mother is Princess Muna al-Hussein, is a member of the Hashemite family...
  
   of Jordan.
• Advisor for Tribal Affairs and Cultural Secretary to H.M. King Abdullah II of Jordan.
• Advisor to His Majesty King Hussein
  Hussein of Jordan
  Hussein bin Talal was the third King of Jordan from the abdication of his father, King Talal, in 1952, until his death. Hussein's rule extended through the Cold War and four decades of Arab-Israeli conflict...
  
   of Jordan for Tribal Affairs..
• Cultural Secretary to His Majesty King Hussein of Jordan.
• Officer in the Royal Jordanian Desert Police Force
  Desert Force
  The Desert Force , AKA Desert Patrol, was a paramilitary force of Transjordan. Its main task was to guard Jordanian borders with neighboring Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Syria as well as to provide protection for oil pipe lines of Iraqi Petroleum Company .It also participated in campaigns of Syria and...
  
   (June 1989– December 1992):

Promoted to First Lieutenant (November 14, 1992).

Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant (November 1989).

Regent of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

• Has served Jordan as Regent
  Regent
  A regent, from the Latin regens "one who reigns", is a person selected to act as head of state because the ruler is a minor, not present, or debilitated. Currently there are only two ruling Regencies in the world, sovereign Liechtenstein and the Malaysian constitutive state of Terengganu...
  
   in the absence of H.M. King Abdullah II from the country.

(1) In Religious Affairs

• The Hashemite Fund for the Building and Maintenance of the Blessed Aqsa Mosque and the Noble Dome of the Rock:

Chairman of the Board of Trustees (June 16, 2007 to present),

• The Royal Steering Committee for the ‘Amman Message’ Islamic Initiative

Chairman of the Committee (May 2005 to present)

• The Royal Steering Committee for the ‘Amman Message’ Interfaith Initiative:

Chairman of the Committee (May 2005 to present).

• The Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought

Chairman of Board of Trustees (August 2000 to present).

Founder and Chairman of the Board Ex Officio of the World Islamic Sciences and Education University (W.I.S.E.) , Amman, Jordan, (March 2008).

Founder and Director of The Great Tafsir Project(November 2000 to present).

• The National Park of the Site of the Baptism of Christ

Founder and Chairman of the Board for the National Park (August 2001 to present).

Founder and Chairman of the Royal Committee (1999–2001).

Founder and Deputy Chairman of the Royal Committee (1997–1999).

• National Committee for Religious Endowments (Awqaf):

Member of Committee (1996 to present).

• Royal Committee for the Building and Restoration of the Tombs of the Prophets and the Companions:

Member of the Committee (1994 to present).

(2) In Education and Cultural Affairs

• Belqa Applied University:

Founding Chairman of the Board of Trustees (1996 – May 2010).

• The Royal Commission to Investigate the Conditions and Treatment of Foreign Students in Jordan:

Chairman (September 2004 – January 2005).

• National Examination Council:

Member of Council (1997–2000).

• National Committee for Higher Education:

Chairman of Finance Sub-Committee (1999–2003).

Member of Committee (1994–2003).

• National Committee for Lower Education:

Member of Committee (1994–2003).

(3) In Tribal Affairs and Social Development

• Royal Committee for the Preservation and Development of Camel Livestock:

Founding Chairman of the Committee (2000–2003).

• Committee for Tribal Lands and Claims:

Head of Ministerial Committee (1998–2003).

• Royal Institute for Development and Charitable Works:

Founder and Executive Director and Member of Board of Trustees (1997–2000).

• Royal Committee for the Endowment of Underprivileged Schools and Tribal Areas:

Founding Chairman of Committee (1995–2003).

(4) In Sports

• National Jordanian Boxing Federation:

President (April–July 1998).

• National Jordanian Basketball Federation:

Honorary President (1991–1993).

President (1988–1991).

Part-time Work (in Academia)

• Professor of Islamic Philosophy at Jordan University (Faculty of Graduate Studies) (Amman, Jordan).

Appointed as Full Professor (December 12, 2005, to present).

• Associate Professor of Islamic Philosophy at Aal al-Bayt University (Mafraq, Jordan).

Appointed as Associate Professor (May 13, 2002).

• Assistant Research Professor at Jordan University (Amman, Jordan).

Appointed as Research Professor (May 29, 2000).

Welcome of Pope Benedict XVI in Amman, Jordan

Prince Ghazi gave the welcoming address on the occasion of the pilgrimage of Pope Benedict XVI

Pope Benedict XVI

Benedict XVI is the 265th and current Pope, by virtue of his office of Bishop of Rome, the Sovereign of the Vatican City State and the leader of the Catholic Church as well as the other 22 sui iuris Eastern Catholic Churches in full communion with the Holy See...

 in Jordan, May 9, 2009. His wide-ranging speech, during Benedict's visit to the new King Hussein Mosque in Amman, was carried live on Eternal Word Television Network TV. It gave an account of Muslim-Christian relationships, acknowledged the pope's kindness toward Muslims and made an appeal on behalf of Muslim minorities (as on Mindanao

Mindanao

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). The speech also noted that crusaders

Crusaders

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 had damaged the Christian tribes in Jordan that had preceded Islam by 600 years.
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World Interfaith Harmony Week

On September 23, 2010, King Abdullah II of Jordan proposed a World Interfaith Harmony Week

World Interfaith Harmony Week

World Interfaith Harmony Week is a UN resolution for a worldwide week of interfaith harmony proposed in 2010 by HM King Abdullah II and HRH Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad of Jordan...

 to the UN General Assembly.

On October 20, 2010, Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad, Personal Envoy and Special Advisor of the King of Jordan, presented the proposal – having conceived and written the draft resolution – before the UN General Assembly 34th plenary meeting in New York where it was adopted unanimously. His speech was a powerful call to those who love God and love the neighbour, or the Good and the neighbour, to coordinate and concentrate their activities in a more effective way.

The misuse or abuse of religions can thus be a cause of world strife, whereas religions should be a great foundation for facilitating world peace. The remedy for this problem can only come from the world’s religions themselves. Religions must be part of the solution, not part of the problem

The World Interfaith Harmony Week will fall on the first week of February every year. Its purpose is the promotion of interfaith harmony between religious and spiritual congregations the world over.video clip

Non-Government Organizations

These include:

• Islamica Magazine

Chairman of the Board of Directors,

June 2008 to present.

• Coordinator of the International A Common Word Initiative

January 2008 to present.

Books

• Love in the Holy Quran (in English) Kazi Pulblications Inc, USA, 2011. ISBN 978-1-56744-981-5 Facebook Page

‘What the world should understand when it hears the Qur’an’.
Sheikh Ali Gomaa, Grand Mufti of Egypt.

'A masterwork of scholarship and of inspiration'.
H.E. Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, Distinguished Senior Scholar, the Library of Congress.

‘Love in the Holy Qur’an is bound to become a classic.’
Tamara Sonn, Kenan Professor of Humanities,
College of William and Mary.

• Love in the Holy Qur'an (in Arabic) (الحب في القرآن الكريم ) Dar al-Razi, Jordan, 2010. ISBN 978-9957-8533-7-2 website

‘An exceptional thesis, worthy of praise and appreciation for its methodology, for its content and for its language’.
— H.E. the Grand Imam and Sheikh of Al-Azhar, Professor Dr. Ahmad Muhammad el-Tayeb

Mohamed Ahmed el-Tayeb

Ahmed Mohamed el-Tayeb is the current Imam of al-Azhar Mosque. He was appointed by the Egyptian President, Hosni Mubarak, following the death of Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy in 2010.-References:...

 (the thesis’s supervisor at Al-Azhar University).

‘[This book is] the most precious of gems; the most beautiful of adornments; the firmest in the heart; the closest to the mind, and the most complete in its influence.’
— The Grand Mufti of Syria, H.E. Sheikh Professor Dr. Ahmad Badruldin Hassoun.

• A Common Word, Muslims and Christians on Loving God and Neighbor (Editor with Volf and Yarrington) Eerdmans Publishing House Co. 2010 website
• True Islam and the Islamic Consensus on the Message of Amman / Kitab Ijma’ Al-Muslimin ‘ala Ihtiram Mathahib al-Din (compiler, editor and author of introduction [in Arabic and English]; The Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought, Amman, Jordan, 2006).

'The best resource for all those who wish to travel along the straight path in their words and in their actions, and in their spiritual and religious life.' – From the Preface by H.E. Grand Imam Professor Dr. Muhammad Sayyid Tantawi, Shaykh Al-Azhar.

• Al-Insan (Man), (et al.; published, in Arabic, by the Jordanian Ministry of Education as the text-book for the 12th Grade National Curriculum for General Studies, Amman, 2001; revised 2nd edition in 2007 ).
• The Sacred Origin of Sports and Culture (published by Fons Vitae, KY, USA, 1998).
• The Holy Sites of Jordan (ed.; published by Turab, Amman, 1996; 2nd edition 1999).
• The Tribes of Jordan at the Beginning of the Twenty-first Century (published by Turab, Amman, 1999).

Articles

• ‘A Common Word Between Us and You’ (one of 138 signatories [and sole author]); An Open Letter to World Christian Leaders from World Muslim Leaders, October 13, 2007.

‘The appearance of the A Common Word [Open Letter] of 2007 was a landmark in Muslim-Christian relations and it has a unique role in stimulating a discussion at the deepest level across the world.’
— His Grace Dr. Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, 2010.

• ‘Open Letter to His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI’ (one of 38 signatories [and co-author]; in Islamica, no.18, Los Angeles CA, 2006; issued October 13, 2006).
• ‘The Prophet Muhammad’ (in Islamica, no.16, Los Angeles CA, 2006).

2nd expanded edition, republished in newspapers in Denmark in 2008.

• ‘Truth and Knowledge’, (in The Book of Language, ed. Kabir Helminski, published by The Book Foundation [The Education Project Series] Oxford, U.K., 2006).

Decorations and awards

• Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize
  Nobel Peace Prize
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   2011
• Awarded Badge of the Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise (3rd Class), by President Viktor Yanukovych of Ukraine, June 2011
• Awarded an Honorary PhD in Education from Al-Belqa Applied University, Jordan on September 22, 2010.
• Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize
  Nobel Peace Prize
  The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel.-Background:According to Nobel's will, the Peace Prize shall be awarded to the person who...
  
   2009 for initiating peaceful dialogue between cultures and religions.
• Awarded both the Medal of the Holy Sephulcher (of the 1st order) and the Medal of Peace by H.B. Patriarch Theophilos III, the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem and the Holy Land on 1/10/2009.
• Eugen Biser Siftung (Germany): Co-recipient of Annual Award with H.E. Grand Mufti Mustafa Ceric of Bosnia and Sheikh Habib Ali Jiffri of Yemen, 2008.
• Awarded the Education Medal (of the 1st Order) by H.M. King Abdullah II on 5/10/2004.
• Awarded the Al-Nahdah Medal (of the 1st Order) by H.M. King Abdullah II on 9/10/2003.
• Awarded the Muhammadi Medal (of the 2nd Order) by H.M. King Muhammad VI of Morocco on 10/3/2000.
• Made Grand Officier de la Légion d’Honneur by President Jacques Chirac
  Jacques Chirac
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  of France in 7/1/2000.
• Awarded the Al-Hussein Medal for Distinguished Service (of the 1st Order) by H.M. King Abdullah II on August 24, 1999.
• Made Commandeur de la Légion d’Honneur by President Chirac of France on November 20, 1997.
• Made Officier de la Légion d’Honneur by President Chirac of France in 10/3/1997.