علي الطنطاوي — Arabic Wikipedia

Arabic Wikipedia article on the jurist, writer and judge Ali al-Tantawi; entity facts only: birth in Damascus on 23 Jumada I 1327 / 12 June 1909, schooling at Maktab Anbar and law at Damascus, twenty years of writing in al-Risala, his judgeship 1941–1953, the draft Syrian personal-status law (1947), his move to Saudi Arabia in 1963, his radio and television programmes, and death in Jeddah on 4 Rabi' I 1420 / 18 June 1999; its references include his own Memoirs and his grandson Mujahid Dirani's biography.