Maher Charif (Arabic: ماهر الشريف, transliterated Mahir ash-Sharif) is a Palestinian Marxist historian specialising in modern Arab intellectual history and the history of Arab political movements. He is working as a lecturer and researcher on medieval, modern, and Arab history at the French Near East Institute in Syria.[1]

Maher Charif
Lecturer and Researcher on Medieval, Modern, and Arab History at the French Near East Institute in Syria
Member of the Central Committee of the Palestinian People's Party
Personal details
NationalityPalestinian
Political partyPalestinian People's Party
ResidenceSyria
OccupationHistorian
ProfessionLecturer and researcher

Charif, a Palestinian refugee resident in Syria, has been a member of the Central Committee of the Palestinian People's Party,[2] and is a commentator on politics and society in Arab newspapers.

His works include:

  • Al-bahth 'an kiyan (The Search for an Entity), on the ideological evolution of Palestinian political movements
  • Filastin fi-l-arshif as-sirri li-l-komintern (Palestine in the Secret Archive of the Comintern)
  • Rihanat an-nahda fi-l-fikr al-'arabi (The Stakes of the Nahda in Arab Thought)
  • Tayar al-islah ad-dini wa-masa'irihi fi-l-mujtama'at il-'arabiyya (The Religious Reformist Current and its Future in Arab Societies) conference papers, co-edited with Salam al-Kawakibi.
  • Tatawwur mafhoum al-jihad fi-l-fikr al-islami (The Development of the Concept of Jihad in Islamic Thought)[citation needed]

References edit

  1. ^ "3rd World Forum on Human Rights: Programme". 3rd World Forum on Human Rights: 30 June – 3 July 2008. Retrieved 22 Mar. 2009. [1]
  2. ^ "Les délégations étrangères" ("The foreign delegations"). L'Humanité. 11 September 1993. Retrieved 21 Mar. 2009. https://www.humanite.fr/popup_imprimer.html?id_article=683948 (French)

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