Mohammed al-Ghazali
Sheikh Mohammed al-Ghazali al-Saqqa (1917–1996) (Arabic: الشيخ محمد الغزالي السقا) was an Islamic scholar whose writings "have influenced generations of Egyptians". The author of 94 books, he attracted a broad following with works that sought to interpret Islam and its holy book, the Qur'an, in a modern light. He is widely credited with contributing to a revival of Islamic faith in Egypt in recent times.[4] Another sources have called him "one of the most revered sheikhs in the Muslim world".[5]
Early life
Al-Ghazali was born in 1917 in the small town of Nikla al-'Inab (نكلا العنب), southeast of the coastal part of Alexandria, in the Beheira Governorate. He graduated from Al Azhar University in 1941.[6] He taught at the University of Umm al-Qura in Makkah, the University of Qatar, and at al-Amir 'Abd al-Qadir University for Islamic Sciences in Algeria.
Works and awards
Sheikh al-Ghazali held the post of chairman of the Academic Council of the International Institute of Islamic Thought in Cairo. Sheikh al-Ghazali authored more than sixty books, many of which have been translated into various languages.
He was also the recipient of many awards, including the First Order of the Republic (Egypt) (1988), the King Faisal Award (1989) and the Excellence Award from Pakistan.
Personal life and death
He was married to Lady Amina Kouta; their seven children included two boys and five girls. He was buried in Medina, Saudi Arabia.[4] He was a popular Sheikh in Egypt and remained so after his death.[7]
Works
Some of his books include:[8]
- Islam and the Modern Economy[9]
- Islam and Political Despotism[10]
- An encyclopedic work called "Fanaticism and Tolerance Between Christianity and Islam"[11]
- Fiqh Al Seerah
- Tafsir on the Qur'an
- Laisa Minal Islam (Not From Islam)
- Our Intellectual Heritage
- Renew Your Life
- Islam and Women's Issues
- The Prophetic Sunna: Between the Jurists and the Hadith Scholars (al-Sunna al-nabawiyya bayna ahl al-fiqh wa ahl al-hadith (Cairo, 1989, 2nd edn. 1990))
The Prophetic Sunna
Al-Ghazali's work The Prophetic Sunna, was "an immediate focus of attention and controversy" when it was published in 1989. It became a best seller, with five impressions made by the publisher in its first five months and a second enlarged edition within a year. Within two years "at least seven monographs were published in response to the book." al-Ahram newspaper compared it to Perestroika restructuring going on in the Soviet Union at that time.[12]
In addition to practical concerns of revivalists—sharia position on economics and taxation, criminal law, the veiling of women, and their place in society and the economy—Al-Ghazli wrote of how to "purify sunna of adulterations". Rather than upending the science of hadith criticism, he sought to redress imbalances in scholars' understanding of it.[12]
Nonetheless, the book's "severe" criticism of what Al-Ghazali believed to be the "literalism, and anti-interpretive approach to Islamic texts" of the Ahl al-Hadith (partisans of hadith) prompted sharp attacks from Islamists even more conservative than Al-Ghazali. "Several major conferences ... in Egypt and Saudi Arabia" criticizing the book, long articles in response in the Saudi-owned London-based newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat, and assorted writings of others condemning al-Ghazali and questioning "his motives and competence."[13] According to one of his students — Khaled Abou El Fadl — Al-Ghazali was stunned, and disheartened by what he thought was a smear campaign against him and by the silence of his old students.[14]
See also
References
- ^ "A Short Biography of Shaykh Mohammed al-Ghazali". elwahabiya.com.
- ^ Halverson, Jeffry R. (2010). Theology and Creed in Sunni Islam. Pelgrave Macmillan. pp. 74. ISBN 9781137473578.
- ^ Biglari, Ahmad. "Political Equality and The Issue of Citizenship Rights in Contemporary Islamic Thought." Journal of Islamic Political Studies 1.2 (2019): 77-102. "...modernist thinkers such as Mohammad al-Ghazali..."
- ^ a b Douglas Jehl (March 14, 1996). "Mohammed al-Ghazali, 78, An Egyptian Cleric and Scholar". The New York Times.
- ^ Kepel, Gilles (2002). Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam. p. 287.
- ^ Jehl, Douglas (1996-03-14). "Mohammed al-Ghazali, 78, An Egyptian Cleric and Scholar". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-02-10.
- ^ A. C. Brown, Jonathan (2014). Misquoting Muhammad: The Challenge and Choices of Interpreting the Prophet's Legacy. Oneworld Publications. pp. 136–7. ISBN 978-1780744209.
- ^ A.C. Brown, Jonathan (2014). Misquoting Muhammad: The Challenge and Choices of Interpreting the Prophet's Legacy. Oneworld Publications. pp. 136. ISBN 978-1780744209.
His [Muhammad al-Ghazali] countless books on every aspect of Islam and reviving its proper understanding, with titles like Our Intellectual Heritage, Renew Your Life and Islam and Women's Issues, still sell briskly at Cairo's impromptu sidewalk bookstalls. Through the decades of his prolific writing and serving as an imam in Cairo's leading mosques, Ghazali picked many fights and earned even more admirers.
See also p. 137–9. - ^ Jehl, Douglas (1996-03-14). "Mohammed al-Ghazali, 78, An Egyptian Cleric and Scholar". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-02-10.
- ^ Jehl, Douglas (1996-03-14). "Mohammed al-Ghazali, 78, An Egyptian Cleric and Scholar". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-02-10.
- ^ Jehl, Douglas (1996-03-14). "Mohammed al-Ghazali, 78, An Egyptian Cleric and Scholar". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-02-10.
- ^ a b Brown, Daniel W. (1996). Rethinking tradition in modern Islamic thought. Cambridge University Press. p. 108. ISBN 0521570778. Retrieved 10 May 2018.
- ^ Khaled Abou El Fadl (2005), The Great Theft: Wrestling Islam from the Extremists, p. 93. Harper San Francisco.
- ^ FOER, FRANKLIN (November 18, 2002). "Moral Hazard". The New Republic. Retrieved 14 June 2018.
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