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Yusuf al-Nabhani

يوسف النبهاني

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Palestinian judge, jurist and poet from Ijzim in the Haifa district, a leading defender of the Ottoman Caliphate and of Sufism in his age. Trained at al-Azhar, he presided over Beirut's Court of Rights for some twenty years and wrote dozens of works on hadith, Prophetic panegyric and the miracles of the saints; he was initiated into several Sufi orders.

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Scholar · judge · Poet · writer
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Levant & Iraq
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The Colonial Era · The Gunpowder Empires · The Modern Era Contemporaries: Jamaat Ali Shah · Badreddin al-Hasani · Leyla Saz · Deli Fuad Pasha · Adib Peshawari

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    sunni-shafii (documented) · sufi (documented)

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    Sources

    • Yusuf al-Nabhani — English Wikipedia
    • Yusuf al-Nabhani — Arabic Wikipedia
    • Yusuf al-Nabhani — Azhar Memory biography
    • Mamduh, Tashnif al-Asma' — entry on Yusuf al-Nabhani (Dar al-Nicosia translation, 2022)
    • Yusuf an-Nabhani — Wikidata
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    islam.museum contributors. “Yusuf al-Nabhani”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/yusuf-al-nabhani/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-01.

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    Taqi al-Din al-Nabhani

    Palestinian Islamic scholar and Sharia judge from Ijzim, founder of Hizb ut-Tahrir in 1953. Trained at al-Azhar and Dar al-Ulum in Cairo, he rose through the Sharia courts to the Jerusalem court of appeal before resigning in 1950, then settled in Beirut. His books — above all The System of Islam (Nidham al-Islam) — made him one of the most influential Islamist thinkers of the twentieth century. He died in 1977.