Dr Zakaria Ibrahim
(1924–1976)
Biography
Zakaria Ibrahim (1924–1976) was a philosopher and the author of several influential books of philosophy in Arabic. He was born and educated in Cairo, eventually studying philosophy at the University of Cairo and finally travelling to Paris to receive his PhD in philosophy from Sorbonne University. He taught philosophy in a number of universities across the Middle East before his career was cut short by a heart attack while he was teaching in Morocco in 1976.[1]Maged Kamel, “Dr Zakaria Ibrahim (1924–1976),” Watani, April 26, 2016.
He had been a student of Archdeacon Habib Girgis, who invited him to contribute articles to the Sunday School magazine during his time as the magazine’s supervisor in 1948.[2]Bishop Suriel, Habib Girgis: Coptic Orthodox Educator and a Light in the Darkness (Yonkers, NY: SVS Press, 2017), 84.
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Bibliography
A. Works
This list of Ibrahim’s works was compiled by Maged Kamel in his biographical article.
In Arabic (by year of publication)
- Studies in Contemporary Philosophy (1956)
- Bergson (1956)
- Existentialist Philosophy (1957)
- The Problem of Philosophy (1963)
- Kant and Critical Philosophy (1963)
- Existentialist Meditations (1963)
- The Problem of Love (1964)
- Abu Hayan al-Tawhidi (1964)
- The Philosophy of Art in Contemporary Thought (1966)
- Ibn Hazam (1966)
- The Problem of Freedom (1967)
- The Problem of Morality (1969)
- The Problem of Life (1971)
- The Artist and Man (1973)
Undated:
- The Problem of Man
- The Problem of Structure
- The Psychology of Woman
- Hegel and Idealist Philosophy
- Marx and Dialectical Materialism
B. Further Reading
Kamel, Maged. “Dr Zakaria Ibrahim (1924–1976)” [al-Duktūr Zakkariyyā Ibrāhīm (1924–1976)]. Watani, April 26, 2016.
Related:
Connections: Archdeacon Habib Girgis (1876–1951)