دار الفقهاء

Dr Mahmoud Masri earned his MD in Pediatrics from Aleppo University in 1990, a PhD in the History of Science in 2002, and a Master’s degree in Hadith Studies from Damascus University in 2007. He served as the director of the Aleppo Waqf Library and taught at Aleppo University, the Fath Institute, and various other institutions. He has made significant contributions to the fields of the History of Science, Manuscript Verification, and Islamic Civilization. He has been honored with several awards, including the 2005 International Union of History of Science Prize, the 2005 Kuwait Islamic Medical Sciences Prize, the 2006 Aleppo Intellectual Creativity Award, and the 2002 Arab Historians Honorary Certificate.


“We wish to emphasize that we are not repeating the efforts that have already been exhausted in the fields we seek to serve. We are, in every field, establishing programs and projects that are novel in their thought, or in the form in which they take. Thus, we are filling voids that must be filled for the needs of this vast Ummah.”

Dr Mahmoud Masri
Executive Director, Darul Irfan

Our work intentionally focuses on multiple Islamic sciences so that we can comprehensively continue the legacy of Islamic thought inherited by our ancestors.

To serve our civilizational heritage, we rely on the strength we derive from Islam’s comprehensive nature that combines the material and the spiritual on the one hand, and the distinctive character of Tawhid on the other hand.
Darul Irfan’s work is a communal obligation (Fard Kifaya). It stretches across multiple disciplines, including Islamic studies, manuscript studies, Arabic, poetry, and more.

Darul Irfan’s Theory of Knowledge focuses on research, documentation, education, and culture. It is built on a combination of “Serving knowledge and religion” and “Serving the Ummah’s heritage and civilization”, as was expressed by Imam Ghazali, who said, “The ordering of religion can only be established through the ordering of the world.”