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Citizenship
  
Egypt

Name
  
Fouad Zakariyya

Institutions
  
Kuwait University

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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Biography

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.

Books

  • Myth and Reality in the Contemporary Islamist Movement
  • Articles

  • The Incoherence of Islamic Fundamentalism
  • References

    Fouad Zakariyya Wikipedia