Hassan Abdulaziz al-Saaty

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Hassan Abdulaziz al-Saaty (born September 30, 1916 in Calioub near Cairo ) is an Egyptian sociologist , social scientist and long-time professor at the University of Cairo .

Life

Youth and education

The son of the watchmaker Abdulaziz as-Saati and his wife Harin Salem first attended the primary school in Calioub and then the secondary Islamic Khedive school in Cairo .

He then studied at the University of Cairo , at the University of London and the London School of Economics economics , social sciences and education . In 1938 he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA). Between 1939 and 1946 he passed various diplomas in his subjects, including a. but also in psychology and sociology .

academic career

In the same year he took up his first position as a lecturer for social sciences at the Higher Institute for Social Work in the Egyptian Ministry of Education. Three years later he moved to the University of Alexandria as a lecturer in sociology and in the same year took over an assistant professor of sociology.

In 1960 he accepted a professorship for sociology at Ain Shams University in Cairo, where he also held the position of dean between 1961 and 1964 .

He also held the following offices: Chairman , Department of Psychology and Sociology (1967–68); Chairman, Department of Philosophy and Sociology (until 1973).

In the mid-1970s he was also named as dean of the Faculty of Arts at the Arab University of Beirut .

Private

On January 4, 1943, he married Fawzey Diab. The marriage resulted in a son (Ezzat al-Saaty) and a daughter: Samia Al-Saaty , who today also holds a professorship for sociology at the University of Cairo . His hobbies were table tennis , walking and writing plays.

Memberships

  • L'Institut d'Egypte
  • Academy of Islamic Research "El Azker"

Awards

  • Medal of the Republic, 1977
  • State Prize of Merit in Social Sciences, 1992
  • King Faysal International Prize in Sociology, 1993
  • Medal of Sciences an Arts (1st degree), 1995

Works

Arabic

English

  • Conducted major researches on prostitution in Cairo
  • Industrialization in Alexandria
  • The role of Islam in the social and economic development in the UAR . In: MI, Jan. 1966, pp. 16-21
  • Youth, Violence and Religion . In: Bryan R. Wilson, Hassan El-Saaty, Edouard Bonsel,… [u. a.]; Mourad Wahba (Ed.): Youth, Violence, Religion. Secularization and de-secularization. Proceedings of the fourth EASRG conference, April 6-11, 1981, Rome . The Anglo-Egyptian Bookshop, Cairo 1983, pp. 29-46

literature

  • Who's who in the Arab World 2003-2004 , 16th ed. Saur, Munich a. a. 2000, ISBN 3-598-07709-2 , pp. 645 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Saima Al-Saaty on the international impact of Egyptian music ( Memento from July 6, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Saaty, Hassan Abdulaziz al-
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Saaty, Hassan al-; Hassan El-Saaty
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Egyptian sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 30, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Calioub near Cairo