Ali Al-Tantawi

Ali Al-Tantawi was a Syrian Salafi[2] jurist, writer, editor, broadcaster, teacher and judge considered one of the leading figures in Islamic preaching and Arab literature in the twentieth century.

Ali Al-Tantawi
علي الطنطاوي
Personal
Born
علي بن مصطفى الطنطاوي

12 June 1909
Damascus, Syria
Died18 June 1999(1999-06-18) (aged 90)
Jeddah, KSA
ReligionIslam
MovementSalafiyya[1]

He was a writer who wrote in many Arab newspapers for many years, the most important of which was what he wrote in the Egyptian magazine Al-Risala by its owner Ahmed Hassan Al-Zayyat, and he continued to write about it for twenty years from 1933 until it became concealed in 1953.

He worked from his youth in primary and secondary education in Syria, Iraq and Lebanon until a year 1940. He left education and entered the judiciary.

He was recipient of the King Faisal Prize in 1990 for his services for Islam.[3][4]

Biography

He 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.

Educated at the prestigious Maktab Anbar, he’d then study Islamic law at the University of Damascus, and would militate against the French occupation of Syria, because of which he’ll resume his activities as teacher in Iraq, and later the Zionist project in Palestine, one of the first Islamic scholars putting his attention to this issue.

Being unable to resume his Islamic activism as he wished, he’d relocate to Saudi Arabia in the late 60s, where he’ll spent the last decades of his life, passing away in 1999 and being buried in Jeddah.[5]

Books
  • General introduction to Islam, Dar al-Manara, 2000 (third revised edition), 255 p.

References
  1. S. Moussalli, Ahmad (1999). Historical Dictionary of Islamic Fundamentalist Movements in the Arab World, Iran and Turkey. 4 Pleydell Gardens, Folkestone, Kent CT20 2DN, England: 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.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
  2. Pierret, Thomas (2013). Religion and State in Syria:The Sunni Ulama from Coup to Revolution. Cambridge University Press. p. 105.
  3. "King Faisal Prize". Retrieved 15 October 2020.
  4. منیر احمد; محمد ظاہر شاہ. "الشيخ علي الطنطاوي وخدماتہ العلمية والأدبية" (PDF). Al-Idah. Shaykh Zayed Islamic Centre, University of Peshawar. 29 (December 2014). Retrieved 24 May 2021.
  5. Salahi, Adil (19 June 2001). "Scholar Of Renown Sheikh Ali Al-Tantawi". Arab News.
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