Tariq al-Bishri

Tariq al-Bischri ( Arabic طارق عبد الفتاح سليم البشري Tariq Abd al-Fatah Salim al-Bischri , DMG Ṭāriq ʿAbd al-Fatāḥ Salīm al-Bišrī , Egyptian-Arabic Tarek El-Bishry ), also Tarek al-Bischri (born November 1, 1933 in Cairo ), is an Egyptian thinker and Legal scholar and a leading “moderate” reform figure in the country in the field of Islamic law .

On February 15, 2011, al-Bishri was appointed by the Supreme Council of the Egyptian Armed Forces to chair the Committee on the Revision of the Constitution to propose the constitutional changes related to the 2011 revolution in Egypt .

Biographical

Al-Bishri's grandfather Salim al-Bishri was sheikh of al-Azhar University in Cairo from 1900 to 1904 and from 1909 to 1916. His father 'Abd al-Fattah al-Bischri was President of the Egyptian Court of Appeals until his death in 1951. His uncle 'Abd al-'Aziz was a famous writer. Al-Bishri has two sons, 'Imad and Ziyad.

Tariq al-Bischri received his doctorate in 1953 from the Faculty of Law at Cairo University . After graduating, he was appointed to the State Council, where he worked until his retirement in 1998. He resigned from his offices as First Alderman (Al-na'ib al-awwal) at the State Council and as Chairman of its General Assembly for Legislation and Advice (Al-jama'iya al-'umumiya lil-fatawa wal-tashri ').

Al-Bishri was a secular leftist who turned into a prominent politically "moderate" Islamic thinker. This earned him general respect as a mediator and bridge builder between social currents.

Since 2008, Al-Bishri has been a possible candidate for the 2011 Egyptian presidential election.

Main moments in al-Bishri's thought

For al-Bishri, the conflict between benefit and harm, salvation and calamity, which Egypt also has to cope with successfully in the sense of preserving its own culture, is a question from outside and inside, the Islamic philosopher calls it: between Wafid (wāfid) and Mawruth (mawrūṯ), between the invaded and the inherited. Only a culturally (not least to the former colonial powers) Orient neglects its "heritage" and imitates Western (among other things: nationally oriented) identity.

For al-Bishri, Wafid is everything that alienates the Islamic Egyptians from their roots and keeps them away in the long term. The authentic Egyptian must cultivate his inheritance, his Mawruth, live culturally, as it were, inwardly oriented and successfully push back the Wafid. Tariq al-Bishri regretted that it was only very late that he was able to see the destructively alienating "approach" (wāfid) of non-Sharia-compliant secular law as the main threat to the Egyptian "heritage" (mawrūṯ).

Another central term in al-Bishri's thought is Nahda (an-nahḍa), resurrection (anglicized nahda, awakening, renaissance; from Tunisia we know the Ennahda movement of the same name, which originated from the Muslim Brotherhood, under the politically influential Raschid al-Ghannuschi since the Jasmine Revolution ) . Nahda literally means getting up or standing up and is often rendered as Islamic Rebirth or Islamic Renaissance; many Nahdists see themselves in the tradition of the so-called Islam reformers Jamal ad-Din al-Afghani (1838–1897) and Muhammad Abduh (1849–1905).

Web links

Ex-judge to head Egypt reform panel , Al Jazeera , February 15, 2011
Tariq al-Bishri - A Man for the New Egypt? , al-samidoun.blogspot.com, February 19, 2011

Individual evidence

↑ FAZ of February 17, 2011, page 29: They should become more Islamic by Joseph Croitoru .
↑ See Thomas Bauer: Tariq al-Bishri, Islamic Democrat and Constitutional Father, SAWTUNA blog of the Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies, University of Münster, February 16, 2011
^ The Egyptian Council of State is the highest administrative court in the country, comparable to the French Conseil d'Etat ; see. Tariq al-Bishri and Constitutional Revision , nisralnasr.blogspot.com, Feb. 15, 2011
↑ See Muslim Brotherhood to form political party, promises not to field candidate for president , The Globe and Mail, February 15, 2011
↑ See Amr Shalakany on Tariq al-Bishry: "al wafid" (the "Incoming") and "al-mawruth (basically" that which we have inherited / the Indigenous ") (158) , Rethinking the masters of comparative law. By Annelise Riles (ed.)
↑ Cf. Aclimandos Tewfik on Târiq Al Bishri (...) mawruth (héritage central islamique) / wâfid (apport occidental intégré et légitimé par la révolution de 1919) (...) la dialectique wâfid / mawruth (539) Rethinking the masters of comparative law. By Annelise Riles (ed.)

personal data
SURNAME	Bischri, Tariq al-
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	طارق عبد الفتاح سليم البشري; Bishry, Tarek El-; Bischri, Tarek al; Bishri, Tariq al-
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Egyptian legal scholar and politician
DATE OF BIRTH	November 1, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH	Cairo

[1] FAZ of February 17, 2011, page 29: They should become more Islamic by Joseph Croitoru .

[2] See Thomas Bauer: Tariq al-Bishri, Islamic Democrat and Constitutional Father, SAWTUNA blog of the Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies, University of Münster, February 16, 2011

[3] The Egyptian Council of State is the highest administrative court in the country, comparable to the French Conseil d'Etat ; see. Tariq al-Bishri and Constitutional Revision , nisralnasr.blogspot.com, Feb. 15, 2011

[4] See Muslim Brotherhood to form political party, promises not to field candidate for president , The Globe and Mail, February 15, 2011

[5] See Amr Shalakany on Tariq al-Bishry: "al wafid" (the "Incoming") and "al-mawruth (basically" that which we have inherited / the Indigenous ") (158) , Rethinking the masters of comparative law. By Annelise Riles (ed.)

[6] Cf. Aclimandos Tewfik on Târiq Al Bishri (...) mawruth (héritage central islamique) / wâfid (apport occidental intégré et légitimé par la révolution de 1919) (...) la dialectique wâfid / mawruth (539) Rethinking the masters of comparative law. By Annelise Riles (ed.)