Abdallah al-Qutbi
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| Muslim scholar Abdallah Yusuf al-Qutbi |
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| Title | al-Qutbi |
| Born | 1879 |
| Died | 1952 |
| Ethnicity | Somali |
| Region | Horn of Africa/North Africa |
| Main interests | Islamic philosophy, polemics |
Abdallah Yusuf al-Qutbi (Arabic: عبد الله يوسف قطبي ) (b. 1879 - 1952) was a Somali polemicist, theologian and philosopher who lived during the 19th and 20th centuries in Somalia.
[edit] Biography
Al-Qubti is best known for his body of work called the Blessed collection that he published in Cairo in which he launches a literary attack on the Wahhabis, the Salihiya, and their leaders whom he considered to be heretics and Satanic.[1]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Muslim Brotherhoods in Nineteenth-Century Africa By B. G. Martin pg 199
