Muhammad Abdullah Draz (Arabic: محمد عبد الله دراز) –1958-1894) was a prominent Egyptian Quran scholar and Professor of Islamic studies at Al-Azhar University.
[1] Muhammad Abdullah Draz was born in Mahallat Diyai, a village in Desouk Markaz, Kafr al-Shaykh Governorate in northern Egypt, in the year 1894.
The next year, he was assigned to the same university's Department of Specialization, and in 1930, was transferred to the Faculty of Usul Al-Din, which primarily focuses on the sources of Islamic knowledge.
He was accepted to the Sorbonne University where he studied philosophy, logic, ethics, psychology, and sociology.
After returning to Egypt, he taught history of religions at the University of Cairo and Qur'anic Commentary at Dar Al-Uloom, a teachers' college associated with Al-Azhar at the time.