Shaykh Mustafa Abd ar-Raziq (Arabic: مصطفى عبد الرازق) (1885 – 15 February 1947) was an Egyptian Islamic philosopher.
Early life
He was born in Abu Jirj, Minya Governorate.
Career
Abd ar-Rizq 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. Historian Fawaz Gerges characterized ar-Rizq as a "rebel member of al-Azhar" during his era.
A follower of Muhammad Abduh, Abd ar-Rizq wanted "to prove the compatibility of traditional Islamic philosophy with the rationalism of modern thought".
His brother, Ali Abdel Raziq, was an Egyptian scholar of Islam, religious judge and government minister.
He was involved with the al-Umma party (1907–1925), an influential political party in early-20th century Egypt. He was among the contributors of al-Siyasa, newspaper of the Liberal Constitutional Party. In November 1940 Raziq was appointed minister of waqf to the cabinet led by Prime Minister Hussein Sirri Pasha.
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.
- ^ 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.
Further reading
- 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
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