Rashid Al-Ghannushi
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Rashid al-Gannushi is a Tunisian Islamist leader instrumental in founding the Renaissance Party. Al-Gannushi was born in 1941, and studied philosophy at the University of Damascus. After graduating in 1968, he spent a year in France before returning to Tunisia and, along with many other Tunisians, established an organization devoted to a reform of Tunisian society based on Islamic principles. In 1981, he was sentenced to 11 years imprisonment, but was let out in 1984. He returned to prison in 1987 with a life sentence, but was released in 1988. He moved to Europe and has lived their as a political exile from the early 90s.
Born in 1941 Balhamah Tunisian Republic, al-Ghannushi in 1962 received a certificate of attainment degree supported by the University of Zaytuna equivalent to a baccalaureate degree.
Turning to Cairo and the Faculty of Agriculture in 1964. The dispute Nasser of Egypt and Burguiba resulted in expelling the Tunisians and among the students was Ghannouchi. He than went to Damascus, Syria and studied philosophy in 1964 and graduated in 1968. He was fond of Nasserite thoughts, joined the European Socialist Party in Damascus.
In Damascus, he changed to Islamic thoughts without organizational affiliation. After graduating in philosophy in Damascus 68 he moved to Paris for the Sorbonne.
He started Operating within a group called "call reporting and advocacy group". In the year 1969 he was appointed professor of philosophy in Tunisia. Proceeded to preach on the sidelines of the classroom and in the mosques and through annual summer visits as well as through the press articles in the newspaper Sabah (Morning), then in a magazine called The knowledge.
He founded the "al-ittijah al-islami" in Manouba in 79 and he announced this in a press conference within 81. His movement was met with campaign of repression and arrests in the same year. He Received certificates of proficiency in search of the Faculty of Sharia in 84. The doctoral thesis entitled public freedoms in the Islamic state, but his conditions of detention did not permit for him to finalize his doctorate degree.
Arrested many times and sentenced to ten years in 81 and then released in 87 and then sentenced for life in 1992. Some researchers submitted their doctorate studying his thoughts. Azzam Tamimi (political thought of Ghannouchi).
[edit] Works
- Public freedoms in the Islamic state.
- We and the West (jointly).
- From the experience of the Islamic Movement in Tunisia.
- So when Ibn Taymiyya.
- Rapprochement in the secular and civil society.
- The Islamic movement and the issue of change.
- The Palestinian issue crossroads between paths.
- Women between the Koran and the reality of Muslims.
- Citizenship rights in the Islamic state.
- The difference right and the duty to unity.
Some of his books were translated into other languages including English, French, Turkish and Persian.
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[edit] Sources
- Saeed, Abdullah. "Rethinking citizenship rights of non-Muslims in an Islamic State; Rashid al-Gannushi's contribution to the evolving debate" Islam and Christian Muslim Relations, vol. 10 no. 3, 1999. P. 311.
- alhiwar.net 6.5.2007
