Muhammad Kurd Ali

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Muhammad Kurd Ali ( Arabic محمد كرد علي Muḥammad Kurd ʿAlī ; 1876–1953) was a Syrian-Kurdish scholar, historian, and literary critic. He was the founder and president of the Academy of the Arabic Language in Damascus from 1918 until his death. He is one of the great figures of the Arab-Islamic Renaissance ( Nahda ) movement in the first half of the twentieth century.

Life

He is the son of a Circassian mother and a Kurdish father from Sulaimaniyya , whose family descends from the Kurdish Ayyubid dynasty . He spoke French and Turkish, worked as a journalist - among other things as editor of the magazine al-Muqtabas - and wrote numerous works.

The Chitat al-Sham (Ḫiṭaṭ aš-Šām) is one of his most important works. He is also the author of a scholarly biography "al-Muʿāṣirūn" (The Contemporaries).

politics

From 1896 to 1908 he was a member of the Committee for Unity and Progress . He was a proponent of a bilingual Ottoman Empire . He saw Turkish as the language of politics and Arabic as the language of religion.

literature

  • Rainer Hermann : Cultural Crisis and Conservative Renewal: Muḥammad Kurd ʿAlī (1876-1953) and the spiritual life in Damascus at the beginning of the 20th century . Frankfurt am Main u. a. : Lang, 1990
  • Jonathan Kearney: Muhammad Kurd 'Ali and the Khitat al-Sham . University College Dublin, Ireland 1998 MLitt

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References and footnotes

  1. ↑ ism-france.org: Muhammad Kurd Ali… Le père des Académies Arabes (Amal Khayri)
  2. ^ M. Talha Çiçek: Syria in World War I: Politics, economy, and society . Routledge, 2015, ISBN 978-1-138-94454-1 , pp. 43 .
  3. ^ M. Talha Çiçek: Syria in World War I: Politics, economy, and society . Routledge, 2015, ISBN 978-1-138-94454-1 , pp. 47 .
Muhammad Kurd Ali (alternative names of the lemma)
Muhammad Kurd Ali; Muḥammad Kurd ʿAlī; Muḥammad Kurd ʿAlī; Muḥammad Farīd Kurd ʿAlī; Muḥammad K. ʿAlī; Muḥammad F. Kurd ʿAlī; Muḥammad Farīd Kurd ʿAlī; Mohammed Kurd-Ali; Muḥammad Kurd-ʿAli; Muḥammad KurdʿAlī; Muḥammad Kurd ʿAlī; Free Muhammad Ali
personal data
SURNAME Kurd Ali, Muhammad
ALTERNATIVE NAMES علي, محمد كرد (Arabic)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Syrian scholar, historian and literary critic
DATE OF BIRTH 1876
DATE OF DEATH 1953