Mustafa 'Abd ar-Raziq

Shaykh Mustafa Abd ar-Raziq (Arabic: مصطفى عبد الرازق) (1885 – 15 February 1947) was an Egyptian Islamic philosopher.^[1]

Early life

He was born in Abu Jirj, Minya Governorate.

Career

Abd ar-Raziq succeeded Mustafa al-Maraghi as rector of al-Azhar. His appointment encountered resistance, since he was not a member of the Council of Supreme ulama: King Farouk pressured for the law to be altered to allow him to assume office.^[2] Historian Fawaz Gerges characterized ar-Raziq as a "rebel member of al-Azhar" during his era.^[3]

A follower of Muhammad Abduh, Abd ar-Raziq wanted "to prove the compatibility of traditional Islamic philosophy with the rationalism of modern thought".^[4]

His brother, Ali Abdel Raziq, was an Egyptian scholar of Islam, religious judge and government minister.^[5]

He was involved with the al-Umma party (1907–1925), an influential political party in early-20th century Egypt.^[3] He was among the contributors of al-Siyasa, newspaper of the Liberal Constitutional Party.^[6] In November 1940 Raziq was appointed minister of waqf to the cabinet led by Prime Minister Hussein Sirri Pasha.^[7]

References

^ Goldschmidt, Arthur Jr. (2000). Biographical Dictionary of Modern Egypt. Lynne Rienner Publishers. p. 8. ISBN 978-1-55587-229-8. Retrieved 26 March 2013.
^ Rainer Brünner (2004). Islamic Ecumenism In The 20th Century: The Azhar and Shiism Between Rapprochement and Restraint. BRILL. p. 131. ISBN 978-90-04-12548-3.
^ ^a ^b Fawaz A. Gerges (2018). Making the Arab world: Nasser, Qutb, and the clash that shaped the Middle East. Princeton, NJ. pp. 46–7. ISBN 978-1-4008-9007-1. OCLC 1022845920.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^ Ibrahim M. Abu-Rabi' (2001). "The Arab World". In Seyyed Hossein Nasr; Oliver Leaman (eds.). Routledge History of World Philosophies: History of Islamic philosophy. Vol. 1. Routledge. pp. 1088–1092. ISBN 978-0-415-05667-0.
^ Marshall Cavendish Reference. Illustrated Dictionary of the Muslim World Muslim World. Marshall Cavendish, 2010 ISBN 9780761479291 p.79.
^ Arthur Goldschmidt Jr. (2013). Historical Dictionary of Egypt (4th ed.). Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press. p. 388. ISBN 978-0-8108-8025-2.
^ "The New Cairo Cabinet". The Palestine Post⁩⁩. Cairo. 18 November 1940. Archived from the original on 26 February 2022. Retrieved 26 February 2022.

I. M. Abu Rabi', 'Al-Azhar and rationalism in modern Egypt: the philosophical contributions of Shaykhs Mustafa 'Abd al-Raziq and 'Abd al-Halim Mahmud', Islamic Studies, vol. 27, no. 2 (Summer 1988), pp. 129–50
G. C. Anawati and M. Borrmans, 'Le cheikh Mustafa 'Abd al-Raziq et son ecole', in Tendances et courants de l'Islam arabe contemporaine, München, 1982, pp. 30–35
Taha Hussein, 'Le cheikh Mostafa 'Abd el-Razeq tel que je l'ai connu', Mélanges, vol. 4 (1957), pp. 249–53