Reviews with Sheikh Abdul Khaliq Al-Sharif | Childhood and Upbringing to Moving to Saudi Arabia | Episode 1

In the first episode of his recollections, Abd al-Khaliq al-Sharif details his upbringing in a religious environment in Egypt. His upbringing coincided with the year of the cholera epidemic in 1946, as he recounts his mother’s influence on his early spiritual formation and his association with the Muslim Brotherhood from his childhood. Al-Sharif reviews his academic journey at Al-Azhar, specializing in the Faculty of Transactions and Administration alongside an in-depth study of the Islamic legal sciences. He also touches upon his prison experience in the late Nasser era, his stance on the Nasserist period, and the social ramifications of the defeat. The guest concludes his talk with his academic journey to Saudi Arabia in 1976 and meeting prominent scholars such as Manna' al-Qattan and Abd al-Fattah Abu Ghuddah, where he prepared his master's thesis on the thought of Hassan al-Banna, his major jurisprudential contributions, and his reformative impact on scholarly and social education.