Youssef Ziedan
Youssef Ziedan (* June 30, 1958 in Sohag, Upper Egypt), Arabic يوسف زيدان, DMG Yūsuf Zaydān is an Egyptian scientist who specializes in Arab and Islamic scientific studies while working mostly with manuscripts. He was known of a specialist audience but also by his essayistic and work of fiction.
Life
Ziedan grew up in the big city of Alexandria on the Mediterranean. He attended the Faculty of Arts of the University of Alexandria, where he graduated summa cum laude. His doctoral thesis is entitled: The Qadiri Sufi order, with a Study and Edition of the Poetical Work of Abdul Qadir al - Jilani, a work on the Sufi Order of the Qadiriyyah and gaskets, Abd al -Qadir al - Jilani. Ziedan is director of the Department of Manuscripts at the Museum of manuscripts, which the Bibliotheca Alexandrina is connected, and lives with his family in Alexandria.
Theses
His works on Sufism and its major philosopher Ibn Arabi and Abdul Karim Dschili are among the most important of his over 50 publications. Other areas of research are Islamic philosophy and the history of Arab medicine and its representatives such as Ibn an - Nafis and Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariya ar - Razi ( Rhazes ). To make these documents also to a wider audience, he is committed to their digitization.
- Sufi Orders and al - Qadiriyyah in Egypt
- Treatises on Body Parts by Ibn al - Nafis
- Hayy Ibn Yaqzan: the four texts and Their authors
- Fiqh al - Thawrah, Dar al - Shuruq, Cairo, 2013, ISBN 978-9770932414
Works of fiction
In addition to his scientific work Youssef Ziedan also works as a novelist. While his debut album The Shadow of the Serpent was little rezipiert, Azazel received rave reviews due to its narrative quality, however, was due to its nature, the object of a fierce political and social controversy. Both novels have a distinct socio-critical character: In the former to Ziedan sets apart with prevailing images of women in zweiterem with religious fanaticism and extremism.
- The Shadow of the Serpent, 1996.
- Azazel, 2008, awarded the International Prize for Arabic Fiction; in German language Larissa Bender: Azazel, Roman. Luchterhand Verlag, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-630-87331-2.