Hamza Abu Faris (Arabic: حمزة أبوفارس), is a Libyan scholar and politician who was born in Msallata on 13 January 1946.
In 1971 he earned a secondary certificate in the Department of Literature and then advanced to study at the Teachers' College for Higher Education in Tripoli.
He earned his master's degree from Al Fateh University in Islamic Studies under the supervision of Dr. Abd' al-Salaam Abu Naji in 1984.
In 2000 Hamza Abu Faris received his Ph.D in Islamic Sciences, with an emphasis in comparative Fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence) from the University of Zaytuna in Tunisia; his doctoral thesis was entitled "Judge Abdul Wahab al-Baghdadi and his approach to Exegesis of the Prophetic Message."
Hamza Abu Faris' relationship with Shariaa sciences (knowledge and training in Islamic legal traditions) begins, at the hands of a local village Shaikh; he completed memorizing the Qur'an in 1982.