Ali Juraysha
- Died
- 1432 AH
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Ali Muhammad Juraysha (d. 1432 AH / 2011 CE) was an Egyptian legal scholar, judge, and university professor who held high judicial appointments in Egypt and taught Islamic law in Saudi Arabia .
Background and Education
Juraysha was born in the village of Safat Zurayq, located in the Dayrb Najm district of the Sharqiyya Governorate in Egypt . He pursued advanced studies in Islamic jurisprudence and legal systems, ultimately earning a doctorate in Sharia and law .
Career and Scholarly Activities
Juraysha began his professional legal career within the Egyptian judicial system. He served as a deputy public prosecutor (wakil al-niyaba al-amma), subsequent to which he entered the Egyptian State Council (Majlis al-Dawla), serving first as a deputy (na'ib) and later rising to the rank of counselor (mustashar) . In addition to his judicial positions, he held several executive and advisory roles in the Egyptian government, including director of investigations, advisor to the Egyptian Deputy Prime Minister, head of a specialized committee within the Ministry of Supply, and head of the First Committee for Judicial Partition at the Ministry of Awqaf .
In higher education, Juraysha served as a professor at Riyadh University in Saudi Arabia and was later appointed as a faculty member at the Faculty of Sharia in the Islamic University of Madinah . Beyond university teaching, he was a contributor to the Kuwaiti Encyclopedia of Islamic Jurisprudence (al-Mawsu'a al-Fiqhiyya) and published recurring articles on Islamic law in the Egyptian daily newspaper al-Ahram . He also authored several legal and intellectual studies, including Asalib al-Ghazw al-Fikri lil-Alam al-Islami ("Methods of the Ideological Invasion of the Muslim World"), co-written with Muhammad Sharif al-Zaybaq, and the prison memoir Fi al-Zinzana ("In the Cell") .
Juraysha participated in various international academic conferences and religious forums abroad. His travels included visits to Morocco, where he attended the Hassani Lectures; Bombay, India, where he attended the International Seminar on Arabic and Islamic Studies; and Mecca, where he took part in the Message of the Mosque Conference .
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List of Works
This legal treatise on Islamic jurisprudence examines the concept, authority, and boundaries of al-maslaha al-mursala (unrestricted public interest) within legal theory.
This treatise on contemporary ideological challenges examines non-military strategies used by foreign powers to exert cultural, political, and doctrinal influence over Muslim societies.
This contemporary political and geopolitical study surveys the strategic, ideological, socioeconomic, and political conditions of the Muslim world as well as its contemporary crises.