Abdallah al-Qutbi

Muslim scholar
Abdallah Yusuf al-Qutbi
Title al-Qutbi
Born 1879
Died 1952
Ethnicity Somali
Region Horn of Africa/North Africa
Main interests Islamic philosophy, polemics

Abdallah Yusuf al-Qutbi (Arabic: عبد الله يوسف قطبي ‎) (b. 1879 - 1952) was a Somali polemicist, theologian and philosopher who lived during the 19th and 20th centuries in Somalia.

Biography

Al-Qubti is best known for his body of work called the Blessed collection that he published in Cairo in which he launches a literary attack on the Wahhabis, the Salihiya, and their leaders whom he considered to be heretics and Satanic.[1]

See also

References

  1. ^ Muslim Brotherhoods in Nineteenth-Century Africa By B. G. Martin pg 199