Ali Al-Tantawi

Ali Al-Tantawi
علي الطنطاوي
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Born	علي بن مصطفى الطنطاوي 12 June 1909 Damascus, Syria
Died	18 June 1999(1999-06-18) (aged 90) Jeddah, KSA
Religion	Islam

Ali Al-Tantawi is a Syrian jurist, writer, and judge, and he is considered one of the leading figures in Islamic preaching and Arab literature in the twentieth century. He was a writer who wrote in many Arab newspapers for many years, the most important of which was what he wrote in the Egyptian magazine Al-Risala by its owner Ahmed Hassan Al-Zayyat, and he continued to write about it for twenty years from 1933 until it became concealed in 1953. He worked from his youth in primary and secondary education in Syria, Iraq and Lebanon until a year 1940. He left education and entered the judiciary. He was recipient of the King Faisal Prize in 1990 for his services for Islam.^[1][2]

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