Taqi al-Din al-Nabhani

al-Shaykh Muḥammad Taqī al-Dīn bin Ibrāhīm bin Muṣṭafā bin Ismāʿīl bin Yūsuf al-Nabhānī محمد تقي الدين بن إبراهيم بن مصطفى بن إسماعيل بن يوسف النبهاني
al-Imām al-Shaykh Muhammad Taqi al-Din bin Ibrāhīm bin Mustafā bin Ismā'īl bin Yūsuf al-Nab'hāni
Leader of Hizb ut-Tahrir
In office 1953 – December 11, 1977
Preceded by	Position established
Succeeded by	Shaykh Abdul Qadeem Zallum
Qadi of Haifa
In office 1938–1948
Title	al-Imam, al-Shaykh
Personal
Born	Muhammad Taqi al-Din bin Ibrahim bin Mustafa bin Ismail bin Yusuf al-Nabhani 1914 (Some sources quote it to be 1909) Ijzim, Beirut Vilayet, Ottoman Empire
Died	December 11, 1977(1977-12-11) (aged 62–63) Beirut, Lebanon
Religion	Islam
Era	Modern era
Region	Middle East
Denomination	Sunni
Jurisprudence	Ijtihad
Creed	Ash'ari
Political party	Hizb ut Tahrir (1953-1977)
Main interest(s)	Political Islam Islamic philosophy Anti-Zionism Islamic economics Refuting heresy Fiqh Da'wah Khilafah
Notable idea(s)	Pan-Islamism Sunni Islamism Islamic Revival Jihad against Zionists Caliphatism Islamic vanguardism
Notable work(s)	List Inqadh Filasteen [Saving Palestine] – 1950 Rislatu al-Arab [Message to the Arabs] – 1950 Nidham al-Islam [The System of Islam] – 1953 Nidham al-Hukm fi al-Islam [The Ruling System in Islam] – 1953 Nidham al-Iqtisadi fi al-Islam [The Economic System in Islam] – 1953 Nidham al-Ijtima’i fi al-Islam [The Social System in Islam] −1953 Takattul al-Hizbi [Party Structure] – 1953 Mahafeem Hizb ut-Tahrir [Concepts of Hizb ut-Tahrir] – 1953 Dawlah al-Islamiyyah [The Islamic State] – 1953 Shakhsiyyah al-Islamiyyah [The Islamic Personality (in three volumes)] – 1960 Muqadimat al-Dustor [Introduction to the Constitution] – 1963 Nida al-Haar ila al-Muslimeen [A Warm Call to the Muslims] – 1965 Mahafeem Siyasiyya li Hizb ut-Tahrir [Political Concepts of Hizb ut-Tahrir] – 1969 Afkar Siyasiyya [Political Thoughts] – 1972 Tafkir [Thinking] – 1973 Sura’t al-Badiha [Presence of Mind] – 1976
Alma mater	Dar al-Ulum
Teachers
Occupation	Islamic scholar
Muslim leader
Disciple of	Imam Yusuf al-Nabhani
Arabic name
Personal (Ism)	Muhammad محمد
Patronymic (Nasab)	ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Mustafā بن إبراهيم بن مصطفى
Epithet (Laqab)	Taqī al-Dīn تقي الدين
Toponymic (Nisba)	al-Nabhānī النبهاني
Birth name	Taqī al-Dīn
Other names	Other name/left empty/none
Relatives	Imam Yusuf al-Nabhani (maternal grandfather)

Muhammad Taqi al-Din bin Ibrahim bin Mustafa bin Isma'il bin Yusuf al-Nabhani (Arabic: محمد تقي الدين بن إبراهيم بن مصطفى بن إسماعيل بن يوسف النبهاني; 1914 – December 11, 1977) was a Palestinian Islamic scholar who founded the pan-Islamist and fundamentalist organization Hizb ut-Tahrir.

Biography

Al-Nabhani was born in 1909 in a village by the name of Ijzim near Haifa in the Ottoman Empire and belonged to Bani Nabhan tribe. His father was a lecturer in Sharia law and his mother was also an Islamic scholar and his grandfather was the famous Palestinian scholar Yusuf al-Nabhani. al-Nabhani studied Sharia law at Al-Azhar University and the Dar-ul-Ulum college of Cairo. He graduated in 1931 and returned to Palestine. There he was first a teacher and then as a jurist, rising to Sharia judge in the court of appeal. Disturbed by the creation of the state of Israel and the 1948 Arab–Israeli War and occupation of Palestine, he founded the Hizb ut-Tahrir party in 1953. The party was immediately banned in Jordan. Al-Nabhani was banned from returning to Jordan and settled in Beirut. He died on December 20, 1977.

Political philosophy

Al-Nabhani proclaimed that the depressed political condition of Muslims in the contemporary world stemmed from the abolition of the Caliphate in 1924. al-Nabhani was critical of the way the Middle East had been carved up into nation states allied with various imperial powers. Other causes of stagnation included the Ottoman Empire's closing of the doors of ijtihad, its failure to understand "the intellectual and legislative side of Islam", and neglect of the Arabic language.

In his most famous works, written in the early 1950s, al-Nabhani expressed a radical disillusionment with the secular powers that had failed to protect Palestinian nationalism. He argued for a new caliphate that would be brought about by "peaceful politics and ideological subversion" and eventually cover the world replacing all nation states. Its political and economic order would be founded on Islamic principles, not materialism that, in his view, was the outcome of capitalist economies.

Al-Nabhani also wrote The Economic System in Islam, a book on Islamic views on economic principles and the contradictions between them and Western-based capitalism and socialism. It was published in Arabic in 1953 and translated into English and a number of other languages.

Influence

Hizb ut-Tahrir did not attract a large following in the countries where it was established. Despite this, al-Nabhani's works have become an important part of contemporary Islamist literature.

Bibliography

• al-Nabhani, Taqi al-Din (2002), The System of Islam Nidham al-Islam, London: al-Khilafah Publications
• al-Nabhani, Taqi al-Din (2004), Thought al-Tafkeer, London: al-Khilafah Publications
• al-Nabhani, Taqi al-Din (2005), Islamic Personality al-Shaksiyyah al-Islamiyyah, London: al-Khilafah Publications}

References

Citations

• http://www.nabahani.com/articles/gnlgwnw-hizb-ut-tahrir-and-the-rafidah-shiah-enemies-of-the-sahaabah-part-1.cfm
• http://www.manhaj.com/manhaj/articles/rzaoo-taqi-ud-din-an-nabahani-hizb-ut-tahir-and-bathist-marxist-communism.cfm

Sources

• Tripp, Charles (2010). "West Asia from the First World War". In Robinson, Francis (ed.). The New Cambridge History of Islam, Volume 5: The Islamic World in the Age of Western Dominance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-83826-9.
• "Title?", Al-Waie Magazine (Arabic), no. 234–235, August–September 2006, archived from the original on 2015-02-09
• Biography, archived from the original on 2010-12-19

Further reading

• David Commins (October 1991). "Taqi al-Din al-Nabhāni and the Islamic Liberation Party". The Muslim World. 81 (3–4). Hartford International: 194–211. doi:10.1111/j.1478-1913.1991.tb03525.x.
• Sarmad Ahmed Jassim al-Salmani (2013). "Judicial and administrative system in Islam According to Sheikh Taqi al-Din al-Nabhani A comparative study". Journal of the Iraqi University. 30 (2): 297–434.
• Ameer Ali (2006). "Tabligh Jama'at and Hizbul Tahrir: Divergent Paths to Convergent Goals, Education to Counter Extremism" (PDF). Dialogue & Alliance. 20 (2): 51–66.
• Suha Taji-Farouki (1996). "Islamic State Theories and Contemporary Realities". Islamic Fundamentalism (1st ed.). Routledge. pp. 35–50. doi:10.4324/9780429499593-3. ISBN 9780429499593.