Mustafa al-Siba'i

Mustafa al- Siba'i (Arabic: مصطفى السباعي, DMG Mustafa al- Siba ʿ ī, * 1915 in Homs, † 1964) was a leading activist of the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood. He led the Syrian parliament after the 1949 election, the Islamic Socialist Front (al- Ǧabha al - al - Islamiya ištirākīya ).

Life

As- Siba'i 1915 was born into a family with a hundred years of Islamic clerical tradition. Very early he scored his secondary education, his eloquence was a good basis for policy - even family nationally precreased - activity which he henceforth five, sometimes longer and the health aufzehrende camp and prison stays brought by the mandatory powers. He started in 1933 at Al-Azhar University in Cairo to study Islamic law, which enabled him with the 1949 obtained a doctorate adopting an appropriate professor at the University of Damascus. In his teachings he tried consciously than his friend Hassan al -Banna to the presentation of the economic impact of the Islamic message. The script for his lecture " Socialism of Islam" ( ištirākiyat al -Islam ) was his most important work. Constructive competition, cooperation instead of class struggle, social reform and persuasion rather than coercion are features of the target of as- Siba'i " moral socialism." With nationalization, he wanted to know very restrictive, he relied on medieval Sufi theologians such as Hamid al -Ghazali.

The family as- Siba'i presented not only the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, but also those of the Communists, both groups fought each other vehemently.

Works

• Le Socialisme de l' Islam ( Ishtirâkiyyat al -Islam ), Damascus 1959, In: . À propos du ' socialisme de l' Islam ', Orient, 20, 1961, pp. 175-178.