Ali Al-Tantawi

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Ali Al-Tantawi
محمد علي الطنطاوي
Salafiyya[1]

Mohammad Ali Al-Tantawi was a Syrian Sunni [2] 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.[3][4]

Biography

Al-Tantawi was born in

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.[citation needed
]

Aftar attending the prestigious

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.[citation needed
]

Al-Tantawi wrote in many Arab newspapers throughout the years, most importantly of which was Egyptian magazine Arrissalah from 1933 to 1953.[citation needed]

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.[5]

Books

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

References

  1. . 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.
  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. 29 (December 2014). Shaykh Zayed Islamic Centre, University of Peshawar. Retrieved 24 May 2021.
  5. ^ Salahi, Adil (19 June 2001). "Scholar Of Renown Sheikh Ali Al-Tantawi". Arab News.