Tarek El-Bishry ( ar, طارق عبد الفتاح سليم البشري, ; 1 November 1933 – 26 February 2021) was an Egyptian judge.
On 15 February 2011, El-Bishry was appointed by the
Supreme Council of the Armed Forces
The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF; ar, المجلس الأعلى للقوات المسلحة, ', also Higher Council of the Armed Forces) is a statutory body of between 20 and 25 senior Egyptian military officers and is headed by Fi ...
to head the
committee
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set up to propose constitutional changes in the aftermath of the
Egyptian Revolution of 2011
The 2011 Egyptian revolution, also known as the 25 January revolution ( ar, ثورة ٢٥ يناير; ), began on 25 January 2011 and spread across Egypt. The date was set by various youth groups to coincide with the annual Egyptian "Police ho ...
.
Biography
El-Bishry was born in
Cairo
Cairo ( ; ar, القاهرة, al-Qāhirah, ) is the capital of Egypt and its largest city, home to 10 million people. It is also part of the largest urban agglomeration in Africa, the Arab world and the Middle East: The Greater Cairo metro ...
,
Egypt
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. His grandfather, Saliem el-Bishry, was shaykh of
al-Azhar
Al-Azhar Mosque ( ar, الجامع الأزهر, al-Jāmiʿ al-ʾAzhar, lit=The Resplendent Congregational Mosque, arz, جامع الأزهر, Gāmiʿ el-ʾazhar), known in Egypt simply as al-Azhar, is a mosque in Cairo, Egypt in the historic ...
from 1900–1904 and 1909–1916. His father, 'Abd al-Fattah al-Bishri, was president of the Egyptian Court of Appeal until his death in 1951. His uncle, 'Abd al-'Aziz, was a celebrated writer. He has two sons, 'emad and Zyad.
El-Bishry graduated from the Faculty of Law at
Cairo University
Cairo University ( ar, جامعة القاهرة, Jāmi‘a al-Qāhira), also known as the Egyptian University from 1908 to 1940, and King Fuad I University and Fu'ād al-Awwal University from 1940 to 1952, is Egypt's premier public university ...
in 1953. Upon graduation, he was appointed after the Council of State, where he worked until his retirement in 1998. At the time of his retirement, he held the offices of first deputy (''Al-na'ib al-awwal'') to the
Council of State
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and Chairman of its General Assembly for Legislation and Consultation (''Al-jama'iya al-'umumiya lil-fatawa wal-tashri).
El-Bishry was once a secular leftist, but became a prominent "moderate Islamic" political thinker, which gained him respect as a bridge between the movements.
El-Bishry was named in 2008 by
Hamdy Kandeel
Hamdi Qandil ( ar, حمدي قنديل ''Ḥamdī Qandīl'', also Romanized ''Qandeel'' or ''Kandil''; 1936 – 31 October 2018) was a prominent Egyptian journalist, news anchor, talk show host and activist.Said, RaniaA Few Good Men: Hamdi Qandee ...
, a prominent Egyptian television and radio personality, as a suitable candidate for the 2011 Egyptian presidential elections, during an interview led by
Amr Adeeb.
He died on 26 February 2021, in Cairo from complications related to
COVID-19
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, during the
COVID-19 pandemic in Egypt
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Background
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Works
He was a prolific writer on questions of law, history, and Islamic and social thought:
* Al-ʻArab fī muwājahat al-ʻudwān (العرب في مواجهة العدوان).
* Al-Ḥiwār al-Qawmī-al-Dīnī : awrāq ʻamal wa-munāqashāt al-nadwah al-fikrīyah allatī naẓẓamahā Markaz Dirāsāt al-Waḥdah al-ʻArabīyah (الحوار القومي الديني : اوراق عمل ومناقشات الندوة الفكرية التي نظمها مركز دراسات الوحدة العربية).
* Al-Ummah fī ʻām : taqrīr ḥawlī ʻan al-shuʼūn al-siyāsīyah wa-al-iqtiṣādīyah al-Miṣrīyah (الأمة في عام : تقرير حولي عن الشئون السياسية والاقتصادية المصرية).
* Al-Islām wa-al-taṭarruf al-dīnī (الإسلام والتطرف الديني).
* Miṣr bayna al-ʻiṣyān wa-al-tafakkuk (مصر بين العصيان والتفكك).
* Al-Qaḍāʼ al-Miṣrī bayna al-istiqlāl wa-al-iḥtiwāʼ (القضاء المصري بين الاستقلال والاحتواء).
* Ḥarakah al-siyāsīyah fī Miṣr,
945-1952(حركة السياسية في مصر
945-1952.
* Al-Malāmiḥ al-ʻāmmah lil-fikr al-siyāsī al-Islāmī fī al-tārīkh al-muʻāṣir (الملامح العامة للفكر السياسي الإسلامي في التاريخ المعاصر).
* Al-Waḍʻ al-qānūnī al-muʻāṣir bayna al-sharīʻah al-Islāmīyah wa-al-qānūn al-waḍʻī (الوضع القانونى المعاصر بين الشريعة الإسلامية والقانون الوضعى).
* Al-Dīmūqrātīyah wa-al-Nāṣirīyah (الديموقراطية والناصرية).
* Dawr al-thaqāfah fī taḥqīq al-wifāq al-ʻArabī (دور الثقافة فى تحقيق الوفاق العربى).
* Al-Jamāʻah al-waṭanīyah : al-ʻuzlah wa-al-indimāj (الجماعة الوطنية : العزلة والإندماج).
* Manhaj al-naẓar fī al-nuẓum al-siyāsīyah al-muʻāṣirah li-buldān al-ʻālam al-Islāmī (منهج النظر في النظم السياسية المعاصرة لبلدان العالم الإسلامي).
* Shakhṣīyāt wa-qaḍāyā muʻāṣirah (شخصيات وقضايا معاصرة).
* Mustaqbal al-ḥiwār al-islāmī al-ʻalmānī
* Mushkilatān wa-qirāʼah fīhimā (مشكلتان وقراءة فيهما).
* Saʻd Zaghlūl yufāwiḍu al-istiʻmār : dirāsah fī al-mufāwaḍāt al-Miṣrīyah al-Barīṭānīyah, 1920-1924 (سعد زغلول يفاوض الاستعمار : دراسة في المفاوضات المصرية البريطانية، 1920-1924).
* Bayna al-Islām wa-al-ʻUrūbah (بين الإسلام والعروبة).
* Al-Dīmūqrāṭīyah wa-niẓām 23 Yūliyū 1952-1970 (الديمقراطية ونظام ٢٣ يوليو، ١٩٥٢-١٩٧٠).
* Dirāsāt fī al-dīmuqrāṭīyah al-Miṣrīyah (دراسات في الديمقراطية المصرية).
* Al-Ḥarakah al-siyāsīyah fī Miṣr, 1945-1952 (الحركة السياسية في مصر، ١٩٤٥-١٩٥٢).
* Al-Muslimūn wa-al-Aqbāt fī iṭār al-jamāʻah al-waṭanīyah (المسلمون والأقباط في إطار الجماعة الوطنية).
* Bayna al-jāmiʻah al-dīnīyah wa-al-jāmiʻah al-waṭanīyah fī al-fikr al-siyāsī.
* Fi al-mas'alah al-Islamiyah al-mu'asirah bayna al-Islam wa al-'Urubah.
* Māhiyāt al-muʻāṣarah.
* Shakhṣīyāt tārīkhīyah.
* Buḥūth muʼtamar miʼawīyat al-Imām al-Bannā : al-mashrūʻ al-iṣlāḥī lil-Imām Ḥasan al-Bannā : tasāʼulāt li-qarn jadīd (بحوث مؤتمر مئوية الامام البنا : المشروع الاصلاحي للامام حسن البنا : تساؤلات لقرن جديد).
* Ummatī fī al-ʻālam : ḥawlīyat qaḍāyā al-ʻālam al-Islāmī, 1419-1420 H/1999 M (أمتي في العالم : حولية قضايا العالم الإسلامي ١٤١٩-١٤٢٠ ه /١٩٩٩م).
References
External links
Faith in protest, The Alliance of Egyptian Americans, 2006 interview
Ellis Goldberg, nisralnasr blog, 15 February 2011
Tarik al-Bishri
Tarek El-Bishry ( ar, طارق عبد الفتاح سليم البشري, ; 1 November 1933 – 26 February 2021) was an Egyptian judge. On 15 February 2011, El-Bishry was appointed by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces to head the committee ...
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Al Jazeera English
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'', 18 March 2011, "The chair of the committee tasked with rewriting the Egyptian constitution reflects on the birth of a new regime."
Egypt's new legitimacy Tarek El-Bishry, ''
The Guardian
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'', 21 March 2011, "Egypt's referendum results have set us on the path to rebuild our country on new democratic grounds"
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