shaykh gibril haddad is regarded as an accomplished and influential islamic scholar hadith expert muhaddith religious leader author and translator of classical islamic texts he holds ijazas from over  scholars across the muslim world and has translated and published over  works in  he was listed amongst the  most influential muslims in the world he has been a teacher on the traditional online qibla islamic institute formerly sunnipath and is a contributor to the website eshaykhcom which offers guidance and traditional teachings on various aspects of islam he is an editor of the integrated encyclopedia of the qurʾān ieq and is also a visiting fellow at the sultan omar ali saifuddin center for islamic studies university brunei darussalam