| Ali Al-Tantawi | |
|---|---|
| محمد علي الطنطاوي | |
| Personal life | |
| Born | محمد علي مصطفى الطنطاوي 12 June 1909 Damascus,  Ottoman Syria |
| Died | 18 June 1999(1999-06-18) (aged 90) Jeddah,  Saudi Arabia |
| Nationality | Syrian |
| Religious life | |
| Religion | Islam |
| Movement | Salafiyya |
Mohammad Ali Al-Tantawi was a Syrian Sunni jurist, writer, editor, broadcaster, teacher and judge considered one of the leading figures in Islamic preaching and Arab literature in the twentieth century.
Al-Tantawi was the recipient of the King Faisal Prize in 1990 for his services for Islam.
Biography
Al-Tantawi was born in Damascus in 1909, into a family of religious scholars: his paternal grandfather, who moved from Egypt, was a graduate of Al-Azhar who specialized in astronomy, his father was an Islamic scholar as well and so was his maternal uncle, Sheikh Muhibb-ud-Deen Al-Khatib.
Aftar attending the prestigious Maktab Anbar, Al-Tantawi would then study Islamic law at the University of Damascus, and would militate against the French occupation of Syria and the Zionist project in Palestine, one of the first Islamic scholars putting his attention to this issue.
Al-Tantawi wrote in many Arab newspapers throughout the years, most importantly of which was Egyptian magazine Arrissalah from 1933 to 1953.
His daughter, Banan al-Tantawi was assassinated by a death squad sent by Assad regime on 17 March 1981.
Being unable to resume his Islamic activism as he wished, he moved to Saudi Arabia in the late 1960s where he spent the last decades of his life. He died in 1999 and was buried in Jeddah.
Books
- General introduction to Islam, Dar al-Manarah, 2000 (third revised edition), 255 p.
- Akhbar Umar, Dar Ibn Hazm, 1959, 488 p.
References
- S. Moussalli, Ahmad (1999). Historical Dictionary of Islamic Fundamentalist Movements in the Arab World, Iran and Turkey. Folkestone, Kent: The Scarecrow Press. pp. 258–259. ISBN 0-8108-3609-2.
AL-SALAFIYYA. .. In Damascus, the movement had a large following, including Allama Shaykh Muhammad Bahjat al-Bitar, 'Ali al-Tantawi, Shaykh Nasir al-Din al-Albani, Shaykh 'Abd al-Fattah al-Imam, Mazhar al-'Azma, Shaykh al-Bashir al Ibrahimi, Dr. Taqiy al-Din al-Hilal, Shaykh Muhiy al Din al-Qulaybi and Shaykh 'Abd Allah al-Qalqayli.
- Pierret, Thomas (2013). Religion and State in Syria:The Sunni Ulama from Coup to Revolution. Cambridge University Press. p. 105.
- "King Faisal Prize". Retrieved 15 October 2020.
- منیر احمد; محمد ظاہر شاہ. "الشيخ علي الطنطاوي وخدماتہ العلمية والأدبية" (PDF). Al-Idah. 29 (December 2014). Shaykh Zayed Islamic Centre, University of Peshawar. Retrieved 24 May 2021.
- Beissel, Manfred (2007). Chronik der Stadt Aachen von 1976 bis 2007 (PDF) (in German). Stadt Aachen: Fachbereich Verwaltungsleitung. p. 41.
- Salahi, Adil (19 June 2001). "Scholar Of Renown Sheikh Ali Al-Tantawi". Arab News.
- 1999 deaths
- 1909 births
- Muslim reformers
- Syrian Salafis
- Syrian writers
- Syrian scientists
- Syrian Sunni Muslim scholars of Islam
- Syrian people of Egyptian descent
- Naturalised citizens of Saudi Arabia
- Syrian jurists
- People with multiple citizenship
- Muslim Brotherhood of Syria politicians
- Damascus University alumni
- Syrian emigrants to Saudi Arabia