Mustafā ʿAbd ar-Rāziq

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Mustafa Abd al-Raziq (left) with the Egyptian nationalist Lutfi el-Sayed

Mustafā ʿAbd ar-Rāziq , also Mustafa Abd al-Razik ( Arabic مصطفى عبد الرازق, DMG Muṣṭafā ʿAbd ar-Rāziq , * 1885 in Abu Jirdsch, Egypt ; † February 15, 1947 in Cairo , Egypt), was an Egyptian religious scholar and philosopher. He and his younger brother ʿAlī ʿAbd ar-Rāziq were the sons of Hasan ʿAbd ar-Rāziq, a close friend of Muhammad Abduh .

Life

He studied at al-Azhar University until 1909 and belonged to the circle of Mohammed Abduh. After completing his studies, he traveled to Paris and studied sociology and ethics at the Sorbonne with Émile Durkheim . He taught Arabic at the University of Lyon, where he received his doctorate on the legal scholar asch-Schafii . This work was first published in Cairo in 1944. After receiving his doctorate, he returned to Cairo in 1915. In 1927 he was appointed professor of Islamic philosophy at the University of Cairo , and in 1938 he was Minister for Religious Affairs (Awqaf). From 1945 until his death he was head of the Azhar ( Sheikh al-Azhar ).

In his lectures and work he was rooted in the tradition of his teacher Mohammed Abduh and gave series of lectures on the life and teachings of Sheikh Mohammed Abduh at the university.

He represented the reform ideas of his teacher, whose “Epistle on the Unity of God” (Risālat at-tauḥīd) he translated into French with M. Bernard Michel with a detailed introduction and published in 1925.

In his introduction to the history of Islamic philosophy (Cairo 1944), he initially followed the teaching of Ernest Renan , according to which Islamic philosophy was neither of Arabic nor of Islamic origin. He refuted this thesis, however, with a careful examination of the role of independent legal finding ( Ra'y ) in Islamic law , which in his opinion already existed in the time of the Prophet Mohammed and his successors . His handling of historical sources and his presentation of historical developments are influenced by his European educational path.

literature

  • Charles C. Adams: Islam and Modernism in Egypt . Pp. 251-253. New York 1933
  • Günter Barthel; Kristina Stock (ed.): Lexicon Arab World. Reichert, Wiesbaden 1994. ISBN 3-88226-783-6
  • The Encyclopaedia of Islam . New Edition. Brill. Suffer. Vol. 7, p. 713

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Charles C. Adams (1933), p. 253
  2. ↑ B. Michel et le cheich Moustapha 'Abdel Raziq: cheich Mohammed' Abdou: Rissalat at Tawhid. Paris 1925
  3. ^ Albert Hourani: Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age 1798-1939. P. 163. Oxford 1970; Joseph Schacht and CE Bosworth : The Legacy of Islam . 2nd Edition. Oxford 1974. p. 354
personal data
SURNAME ʿAbd ar-Rāziq, Mustafā
ALTERNATIVE NAMES الرازق, مصطفى عبد (Arabic)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Egyptian religious scholar
DATE OF BIRTH 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Abu Jirj
DATE OF DEATH February 15, 1947
Place of death Cairo