Education
He obtained his Doctor of Philosophy in Geology from the University of Wales in the United Kingdom in 1963.
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He obtained his Doctor of Philosophy in Geology from the University of Wales in the United Kingdom in 1963.
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 He received his bachelor"s degree from the University of Cairo.
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. Splitting of the moon
Naggar claimed in 2004 that National Aeronautics and Space Administration had in 1978 confirmed in a television program the splitting of the moon.
El-Naggar is an elected Fellow of the Islamic Academy of Sciences (1988), a member of the Geological Society of London, the Geological Society of Egypt and the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Tulsa, Oklahoma.