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" al-Ḥawrānī, Akram - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Picard, Elizabeth
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English
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1060351
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ALei748
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Picard, Elizabeth
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al-Ḥawrānī, Akram - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Picard, Elizabeth
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Leiden: Brill
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Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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(1,062 words)
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Akram al-Ḥawrānī (1912–96) was a Syrian journalist, politician, and five-time member of the Syrian parliament. His life embodies the radical historical changes witnessed in twentieth-century Syria: the liberation from Ottoman, then Western, domination; the popular struggle to institute socialist rules against the system of “feudal” notables; and the advance of secularism and constitutionalism. Akram’s father, a middle-class land-owner and member of the Rifāʿī Ṣūfī order, ran a textile workshop in Ḥamā. Akram studied in the Damascus Tajhīz, a famous preparatory school for boys,
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Islam.
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ALei748.pdf
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