Nabil Fayyad (1955-2022) was a Syrian researcher and writer on religion, born in Homs governorate and raised in Al-Qaryatayn. Trained as a pharmacist, he wrote and translated more than seventy works on comparative religion, the history of Islam and critical study of scripture, including Nietzsche and Religion, Differences Among Qur'anic Manuscripts and An Introduction to the Comparative Religion Project.
He read English, Hebrew, German, French and Latin, and his translations of Western scholarship on Judaism, Christianity and early Islam are a large part of his catalogue. He died in Damascus on 21 August 2022 after a long illness.
