Muhammad Saʿīd Ramadān al-Būtī

Mohamed Saïd Ramadân al Boutî

Muhammad Saʿīd Ramadān al-Būtī ( Arabic محمد سعيد رمضان البوطي, DMG Muḥammad Saʿīd Ramaḍān al-Būṭī , in French Mohamed Saïd Ramadân al Boutî ; born 1929 in Cizre , Turkey ; died March 21, 2013 in Damascus ) was a Syrian- Sunni religious scholar of Turkish- Kurdish origin.

Life

Al-Būtī rejected political Islam and was in opposition to the activities of the Muslim Brotherhood . In some of his works he criticized the Salafist movement and in 1979, in a televised speech , described the attackers who had carried out an attack on a Syrian army facility as criminals.

He was dean of the religion department at the Faculty of Islamic Law at Damascus University , Syria, and one of the most influential Islamic lawyers. He had access to former President Hafiz al-Assad and was called to preacher in the Umayyad Mosque during the 2008 presidency of Bashar al-Assad .

Al-Buti was a signatory to the Amman Message and one of the 138 signatories of the open letter a common word between us and you ( Engl. A Common Word Between Us and You ), the personalities of Islam to "leaders of Christian churches everywhere" (English. Leaders of Christian Churches, everywhere… ) (October 13, 2007).

Mohammed Said Ramadan al-Buti died on March 21, 2013 during the civil war in Syria in Damascus, along with 41 other people, by a suicide bomber . His grave is next to the Umayyad Mosque on the Saladin side .

Works

Personalities who have impressed me ( Šaḫṣīyāt istauqafatnī ), published in Damascus in 1999. Book in eight chapters, of which four deal with key figures of classical Sufik (Fudail ibn ʿIyād, ʿAbdallāh ibn al-Mubārak , Abū Hāmid al-Ghazālī and Jalāl ad-Dīn ar-Rūmī ), while the other four deal with important figures of Islamic modernism employ ( Jamāl ad-Dīn al-Afghānī , Said Nursî , Mustafā as-Sibāʿī and Roger Garaudy ).

literature

Andreas Christmann: "A Plea for Circumstantial Innocence: Muḥammad Saʿīd Ramaḍān al-Būṭī's Defense of Roger Garaudy" in Andreas Christmann and Robert Gleave (eds.): Studies in Islamic Law. A Festschrift for Colin Imber . Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007. pp. 51-72.

Web links

supporting documents

^ ^A ^b ^c Charles R. Lister: The Syrian Jihad: Al-Qaeda, the Islamic State and the Evolution of an Insurgency. Oxford University Press, 2016, ISBN 978-0190462475 .
^ Answering Wahhabism and Salafism
↑ On the Shari'a faculty, cf. Fred H. Lawson: Demystifying Syria . 2012 ( partial online view )
↑ acommonword.com: A common word between us and you (summarized short form) (PDF; 186 kB).
↑ Damascus: More than 40 dead in a suicide bombing in a mosque. In: Spiegel Online . March 21, 2013, accessed June 9, 2018 .
↑ See Christmann: A Plea for Circumstantial Innocence . 2007, p. 56f.

personal data
SURNAME	Būtī, Muhammad Saʿīd Ramadān al-
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Būṭī, Muḥammad Saʿīd Ramaḍān al-; Butī, Muhammad Sa'īd Ramadān al-; Buti, Mohammed Said Ramadan Al-; Bouti, Said Ramadan Al; Bouti, Mohammed Said Ramadan al-; Buti, Muhammad Sa'id Ramadan Al
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Syrian religious scholar of Turkish origin
DATE OF BIRTH	1929
PLACE OF BIRTH	Cizre
DATE OF DEATH	21st March 2013
Place of death	Damascus

[Lister-1] A ^b ^c Charles R. Lister: The Syrian Jihad: Al-Qaeda, the Islamic State and the Evolution of an Insurgency. Oxford University Press, 2016, ISBN 978-0190462475 .

[2] Answering Wahhabism and Salafism

[3] On the Shari'a faculty, cf. Fred H. Lawson: Demystifying Syria . 2012 ( partial online view )

[4] word.com: A common word between us and you (summarized short form) (PDF; 186 kB).

[SPON-890282-5] Damascus: More than 40 dead in a suicide bombing in a mosque. In: Spiegel Online . March 21, 2013, accessed June 9, 2018 .

[6] See Christmann: A Plea for Circumstantial Innocence . 2007, p. 56f.