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Famous
Personalities of the Global Islamic Movement Throughout History
Taqiuddin al-Nabhani
(Full transliterated name: Sheikh Muhammad Taqiuddin
bin Ibrahim bin Mustafah bin Ismail bin Yusuf al-Nabhani;
Arabic: تقي الدين النبهاني; born in 1909 in Ijzim,
Haifa, British Mandate of Palestine and died in 1977)
was a Sunni Shafi'i Sufi Islamic jurist, theologian, and
founder of the Islamist Hizb ut-Tahrir organization. His
maternal grandfather was the well known Ottoman era Sufi
Shafi'i Islamic Scholar Sheikh Yusuf an-Nabhani, was a
colleague of Sheikh Izz al-Din al-Qassam.
Born in Izjim, a village south of HAIFA, Taqyy al-Din
al-Nabhani studied at al-Azhar University and Dar al-Uum
in Egypt, after which he returned to Palestine and held
administrative positions in the Islamic court system in
Haifa, Hebron, Jaffa, and Jerusalem. Called by the title
al-Shaykh, a religious scholar, he was later appointed
as a judge in the Islamic courts of Baysan, Hebron,
Ramla, and Lydda before fleeing Palestine for Beirut in
1948.
Nabhani soon returned to the WEST BANK, where he served
as an Islamic court judge in Jerusalem and a teacher in
the Islamic College in Amman. He had joined the Muslim
Brotherhood while in Egypt and was active in the
movement on returning to Palestine. He also maintained
ties with the Palestinian leader Amin al-Husayni during
the Palestine mandate.
During the period of Jordanian rule in the West Bank,
however, Nabhani grew critical of the Brotherhood's
close links with the Jordanian regime because of its
pro-Western leanings.
In November 1952, Nabhani broke with the Brotherhood and
established the Liberation Party in Jerusalem. Nabhani
left Palestine for Syria in 1953 and moved to Lebanon in
1959. He died and was buried in Beirut in 1979.
While employed at the Ibrahimiyya School al-Nabhani
contacted numerous individuals and personalities such as
his colleagues As'ad and Rajab Bayyud Tamimi and Abdul
Qadeem Zallum and other about the formation of a
political party.
By the end of 1952, and early 1953, the whole matter was
put into practice and Hizb ut-Tahrir was established in
al-Quds Jerusalem. Taqiuddin an-Nabhani together with
Dawud Hamdan, Ghanim Abduh, Munir Shuqayr and Dr. Adil
al-Nablusi in accordance with the then practiced Ottoman
Law of Societies, sent a notice to the governor of
Jerusalem and the Jordanian government, informing the
authorities about the establishment of the Party. The
Jordanian government however, reacted instantly, and
issued a decree banning the Party, and declaring its
activities illegal. Hizb ut-Tahrir, nevertheless,
ignored this action and continued with its work in al-Quds,
al-Khalil, Nablus and other towns and villages.
After al-Nabhani left Jordan for a short trip to
Damascus and Beirut sometime in 1955 the Jordanian
government passed an edict effectively barring al-Nabhani
ever returning to the kingdom. Consequently al-Nabhani
re-located to Damascus and later Beirut from where he
led the party.
Death
Due to the continuous harassment and persecution by the
Jordanian government al-Nabhani was forced into giving
up his role in public life. He was not seen again in
public until his death due to fear of assassination.
Sheikh Taqiuddin an-Nabhani died in Beirut on 20
December 1977, and was buried at the al-Auza'i cemetery.
Party Activities
After the death of al-Nabhani the partys activities
under the initial leadership of Abdul Qadeem zalloum
declined, which over a period of time resulted in
various splinter groups both within and outside the arab
world. Some of these splinter groups have retained the
parent organisations names also. The organisations
activities continue to be banned in most muslim
countries, however, it remains publicly active in a few
European countries esp Britain, from where most of their
global activities are managed thus making it the
effective headquarters.
Books
o Saving Palestine - 1950
o The Message of the Arabs - 1950
o The System for Society - 1950
o The System of Islam - 1953
o The Ruling System in Islam - 1953
o The Economic System in Islam - 1953
o The Social System in Islam -1953
o The Party Structure -1953
o The Concepts of Hizb ut-Tahrir - 1953
o The Islamic State - 1953
o The Islamic Personality (in three volumes) - 1960
o Political Concepts of Hizb ut-Tahrir - 1969
o Political View of Hizb ut-Tahrir - 1972
o Introduction to the Constitution or the Reasons That
Make it Obligatory - 1963
o The Khilafah - 1967
o Presence of Mind - 1976
o A Burning Call to the Muslims from Hizb ut-Tahrir -
1965
o Thinking - 1973
o The Jurisprudence of Prayer |
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