| Abstract: | The two men whose views are surveyed here were both Moslems, and both were thinkers rather than doers, Qassim Amin (1865-1908), a follower of Muhammad Abdu, was a Judge in the Court of Appeal of the Domestic Tribunals. He made the cause of the emancipation of women his life work. He was involved in the efforts then being made to establish a Egyptian University. Ahmad Lutfi al-Sayyid, born in 1872, studied law. He was a follower of Jamal al-Din al-Afghani. Moving in the same circle as Abdu, the Zaghlul brothers and Qassim Amin, he was made editor of Al-Jaridah, the orga of the Umma (People's) Party, in 1907. Lutfi, who is still alive in Egypt and is universally respected, wrote no books; but he translated several of Aristotle's treatises into Arabic, and three of his newspaper essays have been published by his friends and followers. Both can best be described as Westernizers. |
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