Zaki al-Arsuzi · Islam Museum

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At a glance

Roles: Philosopher · writer · activist
Counted among: Sunni
Era: The Modern Era
Region: Levant & Iraq
Identifiers: Wikidata
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Life in time

The Colonial Era · The Contemporary Era · The Modern Era Contemporaries: Abdul Hai Arifi · Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani · Abdul Majid Daryabadi · Abdul Majid Sindhi · Abdullah Musawi Shirazi

History-writing and social thought

Place in the story

PhilosopherTradition

Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.

Overview

Zaki ibn Najib ibn Ibrahim al-Arsuzi, a Syrian thinker and teacher from Latakia, born around 1900 CE and died in 1968 CE. He is ascribed to the village of Arsuz in the district of Alexandretta ¹.

Writings

He wrote on philosophy, education and Arab national thought ¹.

People and things also explored

Disputing the count of raids and sariyas· Orientalism· Stopping the genealogy at Ma'add· Ibn Khaldun completes the Muqaddima· Abd al-Jabbar al-Jumurd· Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti· Abd al-Rahman Badawi· Abu al-Arab al-Tamimi, Muhammad ibn Ahmad

Sources

Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO

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islam.museum contributors. “Zaki al-Arsuzi”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/zaki-al-arsuzi/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-19.

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Disputing the count of raids and sariyas

The maghazi arithmetic disputes: Ibn Ishaq's twenty-six raids versus the twenty-seven that split Wadi'l-Qura from Khaybar; nine pitched battles common to both lists with al-Waqidi adding Wadi'l-Qura and al-Ghaba for eleven; and the sariya counts ranging from thirty-five to al-Waqidi's forty-eight (in al-Tabari's chain) to sixty-six.