Ibrahim Negm was born in Egypt. He has earned his High School Diploma from Al-Azhar University, where he has been graded number 4 in the nation of success. He was awarded a distinguished scholarship to pursue Islamic studies at Al-Azhar. He received his BA in Islamic Studies in 1995 and was the class valedictorian. He was awarded a distinguished fellowship to conduct research at Harvard Law School 1996/1997. He was also a visiting Researcher at the Graduate School of Islamic and Social Sciences in Virginia. He was a visiting Scholar and researcher at Oxford University, UK, 2002. He obtained his Ph.D. in Islamic Studies in 2005 from Graduate Theological Seminary, Indiana, USA. He was an assistant professor of Islamic and Arabic Studies at St John's university in New York in 2005. He served as a full time Director at the Islamic Center of South Shore in New York from 1999 to 2003. He then served as the first Director of the Islamic Learning Foundation in College Point NY in 2004. Dr. Ibrahim Negm is serving as a senior advisor to Grand Mufti of Egypt. In 2016, he was elected as the Secretary General of Secretariat for Fatwā Authorities Worldwide. Negm is a preeminent scholar at the Dār al-iftāʼ („the House of fatwā“). He is the official spokesperson of the Dār al-iftāʼ of Egypt’s supreme body for Islamic legal edicts, advising Muslims on how to abide by their faith in an enlightened manner in constantly changing circumstances on the whole spectrum of issues.He is the founding Director for the Dār al-iftāʼobservatory for monitoring radical fatwās. As a prolific author, he has written many books on Islamic legal methodology and contemporary acute religious and cultural issues.