# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rashad-khalifa
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:45:42.281Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rashad-khalifa"
name: "Rashad Khalifa"
slug: "rashad-khalifa"
description: "Rashad Khalifa was an Egyptian-American biochemist, closely associated with the United Submitters International (USI), an organization that promotes the practice and study of \"Quran, the Whole Quran, and Nothing But the Quran.\" Khalifa saw his role as purging the accretions that found their way into Islam via hadith and sunnah, which he claimed were corruptions. Similarly, he believed that previous revelations of God, such as the Bible, contained contradictions due to human interference .\nInstead, he believed that the beliefs and practices of Islam should be based on the Quran alone. He is also known for his claims regarding the existence of a Quran code, also known as The Number 19. In the last years of his life, Khalifa used the English words “Submission” and “Submitter” instead of the Arabic words ‘Islam’ and “Muslim”, and stated this in his publications and used it in his 1989 translation of the Qur'an."
tagline: "Egyptian-American biochemist (1935-1990)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f0/RashadKhalifaImage.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1935-11-19"
deathDate: "1990-01-31"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.71
  momentum:             0
  historical:           14.74912266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump