Egyptian Chemists - Ahmed Zewail, Rashad Khalifa, Mostafa El-Sayed, Midhat Mursi (Paperback)

Chapters: Ahmed Zewail, Rashad Khalifa, Mostafa El-Sayed, Midhat Mursi. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 24. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Rashad Khalifa (Arabic: November 19, 1935January 31, 1990) was an Egyptian-American biochemist, closely associated with the United Submitters International. He was assassinated in 1990. Dr. Rashad Khalifa was born in Egypt on November 19, 1935. His father was a Sufi who is reported to have led a group with thousands of followers. Khalifa obtained an honours degree from Ain Shams University, Egypt, before he emigrated to the United States in 1959, later earning a PhD. in biochemistry from Arizona State University and a PhD. from University of California. He became a naturalized U.S. citizen and lived in Tucson, Arizona. Khalifa worked as a science adviser for the Libyan government for about one year, after which he worked as a chemist for the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, then became a senior chemist in Arizona's State Office of Chemistry in 1980. Khalifa's son Sam Khalifa played Major League Baseball for the Pittsburgh Pirates and was the first major league player of Egyptian descent. He was central to the founding of the religious group, United Submitters International, (USI), an Islamic group that usually prefers not to use the terms "Muslim" or "Islam," instead using the English equivalents of the Arabic: "Submitter" and "Submission." Khalifa claimed that he was a messenger of God and that the Archangel Gabriel 'most assertively' told him that chapter 36, verse 3, of the Quran, 'specifically' referred to him. His followers refer to him as God's Messenger of the Covenant. He promoted a strict Monotheism and was a prominent Quranist, rejecting the Hadith and Sunnah as fabrications attributed to Muhammad by later schol...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=375137