Salih asch-Sharif at-Tunisi

The Tunisian Sheikh Salih asch-Sharif at-Tunisi (1866–1920) - employee of the German intelligence agency for the Orient

The truth about the religious war , propaganda brochure of the news agency for the Orient ("The proceeds are intended for the Red Crescent.")

Sheikh Salih asch-Sharif at-Tunisi ( Arabic صالح الشريف التونسي, DMG Ṣāliḥ aš-Šarīf at-Tūnisī ; born 1869 ; died 1920 ), in a French spelling Cheikh Saleh Al Chérif ("Al Tounissi") , was a Tunisian Islamic scholar and nationalist. During the First World War he was in the service of German propaganda .

Live and act

Salih asch-Sharif at-Tunisi was born in 1866. He taught from 1889 at the University of Ez-Zitouna (al-Ǧāmiʿa az-Zaitūnīya) in Tunis . During the First World War he was an employee of the intelligence agency for the Orient of the German Empire. In the German-speaking world he is probably best known as the author of the propaganda pamphlet "The Truth About the War of Faith". In this text Ḥaqīqat aldschihād / The Truth about the War of Faith (īaqīqat al-ǧihād) published by the German Society for Islamkunde in Berlin , the Tunisian scholar Sheikh explained the novelty of an Islamist jihad .

Other places where he worked were Istanbul and Damascus .

Publications (selection)

Sheikh Salih Ashharif Attunisi (Salih ash-Sharif at-Tunisi): Haqīqat aldschihād / The truth about the religious war. From the Arabic by Karl E. Schabinger , preface by Martin Hartmann, published by the German Society for Islamic Studies. Berlin 1915, Dietrich Reimer ( Ernst Vohsen ) publishing house . ( Digitized version )
La Vérité au sujet de la Guerre sainte. Berne: F. Wyss, 1916
Tunisia and Algeria A protest against French Tyranny. Berlin [sn] 1916
Appel du genre humain à la verite. Berlin, Verl. F. Social Science, [1917]

literature

Peter Heine : "Sâlih ash-Sharîf at-Tûnisî, a North African nationalist in Berlin during the first world." Revue de l'Occident musulman et de la Méditerranée , Année 1982 Volume 33 Numéro 1 pp. 89-95 ( persee.fr )
Wolfgang G. Schwanitz : Jihad made in Germany. How Max von Oppenheim tried to harness the “holy war” for the goals of German imperialism . In: Junge Welt , March 30, 2004
C. Snouck Hurgronje : The Holy War, Made in Germany. New York and London 1915 ( digitized )

Web links

Lives from a Global Conflict: Cultural Entanglements during the First World War ( FU Berlin )
The emperor's jihadists (Uwe Klußmann, September 28, 2010, Der Spiegel )
Šarīf at-Tūnisī, Ṣāliḥ aš- (1869-1920) (p. 80 ff.)

References and footnotes

↑ Different year of death: 1919 (according to DNB )
↑ Sheikh Salih Asharif Attunisi (Salih ash-Sharif at-Tunisi): Haqīqat aldschihād / The truth about the war of faith. From the Arabic by Karl E. Schabinger , preface by Martin Hartmann , published by the German Society for Islamic Studies . Berlin 1915, Dietrich Reimer ( Ernst Vohsen ) publishing house . ( Digitized version )
↑ cf. on this: Wolfgang G. Schwanitz: "Jihad made in Germany". In: Junge Welt , March 30, 2004

personal data
SURNAME	Salih asch-Sharif at-Tunisi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Cheikh Saleh Al Chérif; Cheikh Saleh Al Chérif Al Tounissi; التونسي, صالح الشريف (Arabic)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Tunisian Islamic scholar and nationalist
DATE OF BIRTH	1869
DATE OF DEATH	1920

[1] Different year of death: 1919 (according to DNB )

[2] Sheikh Salih Asharif Attunisi (Salih ash-Sharif at-Tunisi): Haqīqat aldschihād / The truth about the war of faith. From the Arabic by Karl E. Schabinger , preface by Martin Hartmann , published by the German Society for Islamic Studies . Berlin 1915, Dietrich Reimer ( Ernst Vohsen ) publishing house . ( Digitized version )

[3] . on this: Wolfgang G. Schwanitz: "Jihad made in Germany". In: Junge Welt , March 30, 2004