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محمد علي الطنطاوي | |
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| Born | محمد علي مصطفى الطنطاوي 12 June 1909 |
| Died | 18 June 1999 (aged 90) |
| Religion | Islam |
| Nationality | Syrian |
| Movement | Salafiyya [1] |
Mohammad Ali Al-Tantawi was a Syrian Sunni [2] jurist, writer, editor, broadcaster, teacher and judge considered one of the leading figures in Islamic preaching and Arab literature in the twentieth century.
Al-Tantawi was the recipient of the King Faisal Prize in 1990 for his services for Islam. [3] [4]
Al-Tantawi was born in Damascus in 1909, into a family of religious scholars: his paternal grandfather, who moved from Egypt, was a graduate of Al-Azhar who specialized in astronomy, his father was an Islamic scholar as well and so was his maternal uncle, Sheikh Muhibb-ud-Deen Al-Khatib.[ citation needed ]
Aftar attending the prestigious Maktab Anbar, Al-Tantawi would then study Islamic law at the University of Damascus, and would militate against the French occupation of Syria and the Zionist project in Palestine, one of the first Islamic scholars putting his attention to this issue.[ citation needed ]
Al-Tantawi wrote in many Arab newspapers throughout the years, most importantly of which was Egyptian magazine Arrissalah from 1933 to 1953.[ citation needed ]
His daughter, Banan al-Tantawi was assassinated by a death squad sent by Assad regime on 17 March 1981. [5]
Being unable to resume his Islamic activism as he wished, he moved to Saudi Arabia in the late 1960s where he spent the last decades of his life. He died in 1999 and was buried in Jeddah. [6]
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