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{{Short description|Egyptian geologist and scholar}}
{{BLP sources|date=October 2011}}

{{Infobox person
|name = Zaghloul El Naggar
|native_name = زغلول النجار
|native_name_lang = Arabic
|image = زغلول النجار.jpg
|birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1933|11|17}}<ref>{{in lang|ar}} [http://www.zaytoday.com/event/details/50a5456f7d368 Biography of Zaghloul El Naggar in ZAYTODAY.com]</ref>
|birth_place = [[Gharbia Governorate|Gharbiyab]], [[Kingdom of Egypt|Egypt]]
|occupation = [[Geologist]], Chairman, Committee of Scientific Notions in the Glorious Qur'an. Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs, Cairo, Egypt.
|nationality = [[Egypt]]ian
|website = {{URL|elnaggarzr.com/en}}
}}

'''Zaghloul El Naggar''' ({{lang-ar|زغلول النجار}}, {{IPA-arz|zæɣˈluːl ennɑɡˈɡɑːɾˤ|IPA}}) is an [[Egypt|Egyptian]] [[geologist]], [[Muslim]] 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."''.<ref>{{Cite thesis|last=Zaghloul Raghib Mohammed El-Naggar dissertant|title=Geology and stratigraphic palaeontology of the Esna-Idfu Region, Nile Valley, Egypt, U.A.R. / Zaghloul Raghib Mohammed El-Naggar.|date=1963|publisher=Thesis|url=http://discover.library.wales/primo_library/libweb/action/display.do?tabs=detailsTab&ct=display&fn=search&doc=44NLW_ALMA21830183880002419&indx=1&recIds=44NLW_ALMA21830183880002419&recIdxs=0&elementId=0&renderMode=poppedOut&displayMode=full&frbrVersion=&dscnt=0&vid=44WHELF_NLW_VU1&institution=44WHELF_NLW&highlight=true&rfnGrp=1&tab=tab1&prefLang=en_US&dstmp=1511824931137&rfnGrpCounter=1&query=any,contains,naggar&search_scope=CSCOP_EVERYTHING&scp.scps=scope:(44WHELF_NLW),primo_central_multiple_fe&fctV=THESES&onCampus=false&bulkSize=10&fctN=facet_local2&displayField=title&dym=true&vl(235331552UI0)=any&fromDL=&vl(freeText0)=naggar}}</ref> El-Naggar is an elected Fellow of the [[Islamic Academy of Sciences]] (1988), the [[Geological Society of Egypt]] and the [[American Association of Petroleum Geologists]], [[Tulsa, Oklahoma]]. 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.<ref>[http://www.newvision.tc/?zSystem=eShop&Lang=&sc=E080 The Geological Concept of Mountains in the Qur'an In NEWVISION Website]</ref>

==Works==
El-Naggar wrote a book entitled ''The Geological Concept of Mountains in the Qur'an'' (2003, {{ISBN|9773630072}}). It was published by [[New Vision]] 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,{{citation needed|date=March 2015}} leading El-Naggar to leave teaching and become the Chairman of Committee of Scientific Notions in the Qur'an.{{citation needed|date=March 2015}}

El-Naggar published more than 150 scientific studies and articles, none of them [[peer review]]ed, and 45 books in Arabic, English and French. Many of those publications deal with [[Qur'an and science|what are considered to be scientific miracles in Qur'an]].<ref name="EOQ_SAQ">Ahmad Dallal, ''Science and the Qur'an'', Encyclopedia of the Qur'an</ref>

==Controversial claims and religion==

Naggar said that the power of America would eventually end.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.memri.org/tv/egyptian-cleric-zaghloul-al-naggar-israel-must-be-destroyed-america-will-be-dissipated-nothing |title=Egyptian Cleric Zaghloul Al-Naggar: Israel Must Be Destroyed. America Will Be Dissipated to Nothing |date=April 1, 2006 |website=MEMRI }}</ref>

[[Camel#Islam|Camel urine]] was prescribed as a treatment by Zaghloul El-Naggar which has anti cancer properties according to a peer reviewed paper .<ref>{{cite news|last=Fayed |first=Shaimaa |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-egypt-fanaticism-idUSBRE8990Y720121010 |title=Egypt's radical preachers enjoying freedom of airwaves |newspaper=Reuters |date=2012-10-10 |access-date=2016-01-08}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/188832/reftab/73/t/Egypt-media-becomes-free-platform-for-radical-clerics/Default.aspx |title=Egypt media becomes free platform for radical clerics |newspaper=ARAB TIMES|date=2013-08-21 |access-date=2016-01-08 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130821155052/http://www.arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/188832/reftab/73/t/Egypt-media-becomes-free-platform-for-radical-clerics/Default.aspx |archive-date=August 21, 2013 }}</ref>

He engaged in [[9/11 conspiracy theories|9/11 denial]] and spoke twice in the [[Imam Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab Mosque]] in [[Qatar]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/qatar/11125897/The-Club-Med-for-terrorists.html|title=The 'Club Med for terrorists' |newspaper=The Telegraph|date=27 Sep 2014|last=Gilligan|first=Andrew}}</ref>

===Splitting of the moon ===
Naggar claimed in 2004 that NASA had in 1978 confirmed in a television program the [[splitting of the moon]].<ref>Book: Treasures in the Sunnah - A Scientific Approach, Zaghloul El Naggar, pub. Al-Falah Foundation for Translation, Publication, and Distribution, 2004, {{ISBN|978-977-363-044-7}} {{oclc|795325076}}, p41-43, on [https://books.google.com/books?id=B5kXBc5MPugC&pg=PA42&lpg=PA42&dq=%22james+burke%22+pidcock&source=bl&ots=toHIS9dblJ&sig=4TNFYkWBpCHQGqWseFrW88LRSQ0&hl=en&sa=X&ei=dTpiU7vOIZL07Aa87YHgDA&ved=0CDUQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=%22james%20burke%22%20pidcock&f=false Google books] and [http://www.elnaggarzr.com/en/main.php?id=31 cited on the author's Web site]</ref>

==See also==
* [[Islamic attitudes towards science]]
* [[Quran and miracles]]
* [[Abdul Majeed al-Zindani]]
* [[Mohammed Rateb al-Nabulsi]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://www.elnaggarzr.com/en Zaghloul El-Naggar website]
* [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_l82_MUM7T8UEAOyDwzV0Q د. زغلول النجار Dr. Zaghloul Al Najjar - YouTube]
* [https://www.facebook.com/ZaghloolNajjar/ د. زغلول النجار Dr. Zaghloul Al Najjar - Facebook]

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