Abu Ala Afifi Books

Abu El-Ala Afifi: A great Egyptian scholar, philosopher and mystic, specializing in Islamic mysticism, and has a major research contribution to Islamic philosophy. Abul Ela Afifi was born in Giza in 1897 AD, and graduated from Dar al-Uloom in 1921 AD and was ranked first; Which qualified him to obtain a scholarship in England to study education and psychology in 1924, then he studied philosophy at the University of Cambridge, where he obtained a bachelor’s degree in 1927, then a doctorate in 1930. In addition to that, "Abu Al-Ela Afifi" was an assistant teacher to his famous English orientalist Professor "Nicholson" in the Department of Oriental Studies at the University of Cambridge. Abul-Ela Afifi returned to Egypt in 1930 AD, and was appointed as a teacher of philosophy at the Faculty of Arts at the Egyptian University (Cairo University), next to a group of the largest French philosophy professors at the time, such as “Alexandre Quaret” and “Emile Perrier”; And Egyptians such as “Mostafa Abdel Razek” and “Mansour Fahmy”, and he was promoted to become head of the philosophy department at the university, and during that period he was assigned to teach philosophy at the University of Alexandria, and was also assigned to teach Islamic philosophy at the University of London and Hamilton College in America, and was appointed as a member of the Supreme Council for the Care of the Arts. and Arts and Social Sciences, and a rapporteur for the Philosophy Committee therein. Abul-Ela Afifi had a large production that varied between publications and translations, in addition to a large group of scientific research published in specialized journals, the most important of which was his investigation of the book “Fuss al-Hakam” by Ibn Arabi (which is his doctoral thesis), and “Sufism: The Spiritual Revolution In Islam”, “The Allamah, Sufism, and the People of the Fatwa”, and “The Sufi Aspect in the Philosophy of Ibn Sina”. As for his translations, the most important of them are the book “Majmal Modern Knowledge” written by A. Wolfe, and a book in which he collected the articles of his professor, Nicholson, under the title “The Art and History of Islamic Mysticism.” Abu El-Ala Afifi died in Alexandria in 1966.