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Ali Al-Tantawi (12 June 1909 - 18 June 1999) (23 Jumada al-Awwal 1327 AH - 4 Rabi' al-Awwal 1420 AH) was a Syrian jurist, writer and judge. Head of the Higher Committee for Syrian Students in the thirties for three years. This student committee was the executive committee of the national bloc that was fighting the French colonization of Syria. He was a writer who wrote in many Arab newspapers for many years, the most important of which was what he wrote in the Egyptian Al-Resala magazine for its owner Ahmed Hassan Al-Zayat. He continued to write in it for twenty years from 1933 AD until the year 1953 was obscured. Since his youth, he worked in primary and secondary education in Syria, Iraq and Lebanon until the year 1940. He left education and entered the judiciary, where he spent twenty-five years as a judge in Al-Nabek and then in Douma, then moved to Damascus and became the excellent judge there (1943 - 1953 AD), and was transferred as an advisor to the Court of Cassation in the Levant, then as an advisor to the Court of Cassation in Cairo during the days of unity with Egypt. He was commissioned to draft a complete personal status law in 1947 AD and was dispatched to Egypt for a year to study new draft laws for inheritance, wills, and others. The entire draft personal status law was prepared and this draft became the basis for the current law.