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scholar, and author. The main theme of El-Naggar's books has been science in Quran; his philosophy of science is blended with religion. He left his academic career to become the Chairman of Committee of Scientific Notions in the Qur'an, Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs, Cairo, Egypt.

Personal life

He received his bachelor's degree from the University of Cairo. He obtained his PhD in geology from the University of Wales in the United Kingdom in 1963 where his thesis title was "''Geology and stratigraphic palaeontology of the Esna-Idfu Region, Nile Valley, Egypt, U.A.R."''. El-Naggar is an elected Fellow of the Islamic Academy of Sciences (1988), the Geological Society of Egypt and the

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. He was imprisoned because of his political activism and beliefs during his student life. He was considered a grave threat to secular political establishment of Egypt. He was exiled from Egypt in early 1960s and could return to his country only in 1970.

Works

El-Naggar wrote a book entitled ''The Geological Concept of Mountains in the Qur'an'' (2003, ). It was published by

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when El-Naggar was the chair of geology at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. This book sold fairly well, leading El-Naggar to leave teaching and become the Chairman of Committee of Scientific Notions in the Qur'an. El-Naggar published more than 150 scientific studies and articles, none of them

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ed, and 45 books in Arabic, English and French. For instance, his book ''" The issue of Scientific Miracles in the Holy Quran", in Arabic: "قضية الإعجاز العلمي للقرآن و ضوابط التعامل معها'' ". Many of those publications deal with what are considered to be scientific miracles in Qur'an. Ahmad Dallal, ''Science and the Qur'an'', Encyclopedia of the Qur'an

Controversial claims and religion

Naggar said that the power of America would eventually end.

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was prescribed as a treatment by Zaghloul El-Naggar which has anti cancer properties according to a peer reviewed paper. He engaged in 9/11 denial and spoke twice in the

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Splitting of the moon

Naggar claimed in 2004 that NASA had in 1978 confirmed in a television program the splitting of the moon.Book: Treasures in the Sunnah - A Scientific Approach, Zaghloul El Naggar, pub. Al-Falah Foundation for Translation, Publication, and Distribution, 2004, , p41-43, o
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