Citizenship Egypt Name Fouad Zakariyya Education Ain Shams University | Alma mater Ain Shams University Fields Philosophy Known for Existentialism | |
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Died March 13, 2010, Cairo, Egypt Books Myth and Reality in the Contemporary Islamic Movement | ||
Fouad Zakariyya (or Fuʼād Zakarīyā) (1927 - 13 March 2010) was an Egyptian philosopher, and critic of Islamist thought who is known as “the father of Arab existentialism.”
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Zakariyya was born in 1927. He studied at Ain Shams University in Cairo, and obtained a doctorate in philosophy in 1956. Zakariyya was the head of the philosophy department at Kuwait University from 1974 to 1991.
Zakarriya was a recipient of the Sultan Bin Ali Al Owais Cultural Award for Humanities and Future Studies.
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