 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.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.