Gibril Fouad Haddad

Shaykh Gibril Fouad Haddad
Native name	جبريل فؤاد حداد
Born	1960 (age 56–57) CE or 1380 AH Beirut, Lebanon
Residence	Brunei
Nationality	Lebanon
Other names	Fouad Haddad; Gabriel Fouad Haddad; G.F. Haddad; Gibril F. Haddad; Gibril Fouad Haddad; Gibril Haddad; GF Haddad; Jibril Fouad Haddad; Jibril Fuad Haddad; Jibril Haddad
Occupation	Islamic scholar, muhaddith
Employer	University Brunei Darussalam
Home town	Beirut, Lebanon

Gibril Haddad
Title	Shaykh
Region	Lebanese scholar
Occupation	Islamic Scholar
Religion	Islam
Denomination	Sunni
Jurisprudence	Shafi'i
Creed	Ashari
Main interest(s)	Fiqh, Sufism, Aqidah
Sufi order	Naqshbandi

Gibril Fouad Haddad (born 1960) (Arabic: جبريل فؤاد حداد‎‎; Arabic pronunciation: [gɪbriːl fʊɑːd ħadda:d]) is a Lebanese-born Islamic scholar, hadith expert (muhaddith), author, and translator of classical Islamic texts. He was featured in the inaugural list of 500 Most influential Muslims and has been called "one of the clearest voices of traditional Islam in the West", a "prominent orthodox Sunni" and a "staunch defender of the traditional Islamic schools of law." He holds ijazas from over 150 scholars across the Muslim world. He resides with his family in Brunei Darussalaam and is a visiting fellow at the Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddin Center for Islamic Studies, University Brunei Darussalam. He is also a staunch critic of Wahhabism and Salafism.

Gibril Haddad was born in 1960 in Beirut, Lebanon to a middle-class Lebanese Catholic family. He has described his extended family as a mix of Orthodox and Roman/Maronite Catholics. He was raised in a mixed neighborhood and attended a Jesuit school that his father and grandfather had attended before him. In 1977, his father died during the Lebanese Civil War and his family was forced to flee Lebanon for the United Kingdom where Haddad completed high school. Later his family moved to the United States where Haddad attended Columbia College in New York City and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree. He then returned to Lebanon and got a job at his old school. Two years later, he left Lebanon again and enrolled in a French literature graduate program at Columbia University, New York. Haddad states he spent most of his time after classes at the local church or library and occasionally visited his mother.

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