Sa'id al-Afghani

Sa'id al-Afghani was a professor of Arabic language and literature at the University of Damascus. He was regarded as one of the 20th century's leading scholars in both fields.

Life Afghani was born in Damascus in 1911 to an Afghan father and a Syrian mother. Afghani was instrumental in the founding of Al-Arabi, a magazine showcasing the arts and culture of the Arab World.

Afghani also spent ten years composing a biography of Aisha, the Muslim prophet Muhammad's second or third wife; the book was noted for Afghani's views on women in Islam, which Moroccan feminist writer Fatema Mernissi described as representative of all the Muslim world's most conservative views. Afghani was also learned in the field of Islamic studies, devoting much attention to the aspects of Muslim jurisprudence. On both language and religion, he wrote very little, seeing that books should only be written if there was a clear need for research on the given topic. In Hadith studies, Afghani was a student of Habib Al-Rahman Al-Azmi.

Edited works Ibn Hazm, Mulakhkhas Ibtal al-Qiyas wa al-Ra'y wa al-Istihsan wa al-Taqlid wa al-Ta'lil. Damascus: University of Damascus Press, 1960. Ibn Muhanna, Tarikh Darayya. Damascus: al-Majma' al-'Ilmi al-'Arabi, 1950.

Original works A'isha wa-al-Siyasse. Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1971. OCLC number 30066819 Fi usul an-nahw. Damascus, 1951. Hadir al-luga al-Arabiyya fi as-sam. Cairo, 1962.