Dr. Issam Eido is an adjunct lecturer at Darul Qasim College and an Assistant Professor of the Practice of Religious Studies at Vanderbilt University. He previously served as a visiting scholar at the University of Chicago Divinity School. Before the Syrian uprising, he was a lecturer in the Department of Quran and Hadith Studies at the University of Damascus. Dr. Eido’s research focuses on the Qur’an in late antiquity, Hadith studies, and Sufism. He earned his Ph.D. from Damascus University, with his dissertation examining the criteria of hHadith authentication among early Islamic scholars.
He has also been involved in initiatives like the Dalalah Institute in Damascus, which provided education in classical Arabic and Islamic sciences to international students. He has published works such as “Early Hadīth Scholars and their Criteria of Hadīth Criticism,” which examines the methodologies used by early Hadith scholars in authenticating prophetic traditions.
Dr. Eido has also authored several significant works in Arabic, contributing to the study of Hadith sciences and Islamic epistemology. His notable Arabic publications include:
