Tarek El-Bishry


Tarek El-Bishry was an Egyptian judge. On 15 February 2011, El-Bishry was appointed by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces to head the committee set up to propose constitutional changes in the aftermath of the Egyptian Revolution of 2011.

Biography

El-Bishry was born in Cairo, Egypt. His grandfather, Saliem el-Bishry, was shaykh of al-Azhar from 1900 to 1904 and 1909–1916. His father, 'Abd al-Fattah al-Bishri, was president of the Egyptian Court of Appeal until his death in 1951. His uncle, 'Abd al-'Aziz, was a celebrated writer. He has two sons, 'emad and Zyad.
El-Bishry graduated from the Faculty of Law at Cairo University in 1953. Upon graduation, he was appointed after the Council of State, where he worked until his retirement in 1998. At the time of his retirement, he held the offices of first deputy to the Council of State and Chairman of its General Assembly for Legislation and Consultation.
El-Bishry was once a secular leftist, but became a prominent "moderate Islamic" political thinker, which gained him respect as a bridge between the movements.
El-Bishry was named in 2008 by Hamdy Kandeel, a prominent Egyptian television and radio personality, as a suitable candidate for the 2011 Egyptian presidential elections, during an interview led by Amr Adeeb.
He died on 26 February 2021, in Cairo from complications related to COVID-19, during the COVID-19 pandemic in Egypt. He was 87.

Works

He was a prolific writer on questions of law, history, and Islamic and social thought:
  • Al-ʻArab fī muwājahat al-ʻudwān.
  • Al-Ḥiwār al-Qawmī-al-Dīnī : awrāq ʻamal wa-munāqashāt al-nadwah al-fikrīyah allatī naẓẓamahā Markaz Dirāsāt al-Waḥdah al-ʻArabīyah.
  • Al-Ummah fī ʻām : taqrīr ḥawlī ʻan al-shuʼūn al-siyāsīyah wa-al-iqtiṣādīyah al-Miṣrīyah.
  • Al-Islām wa-al-taṭarruf al-dīnī.
  • Miṣr bayna al-ʻiṣyān wa-al-tafakkuk.
  • Al-Qaḍāʼ al-Miṣrī bayna al-istiqlāl wa-al-iḥtiwāʼ.
  • Ḥarakah al-siyāsīyah fī Miṣr, .
  • Al-Malāmiḥ al-ʻāmmah lil-fikr al-siyāsī al-Islāmī fī al-tārīkh al-muʻāṣir.
  • Al-Waḍʻ al-qānūnī al-muʻāṣir bayna al-sharīʻah al-Islāmīyah wa-al-qānūn al-waḍʻī.
  • Al-Dīmūqrātīyah wa-al-Nāṣirīyah.
  • Dawr al-thaqāfah fī taḥqīq al-wifāq al-ʻArabī.
  • Al-Jamāʻah al-waṭanīyah : al-ʻuzlah wa-al-indimāj.
  • Manhaj al-naẓar fī al-nuẓum al-siyāsīyah al-muʻāṣirah li-buldān al-ʻālam al-Islāmī.
  • Shakhṣīyāt wa-qaḍāyā muʻāṣirah.
  • Mustaqbal al-ḥiwār al-islāmī al-ʻalmānī
  • Mushkilatān wa-qirāʼah fīhimā.
  • Saʻd Zaghlūl yufāwiḍu al-istiʻmār : dirāsah fī al-mufāwaḍāt al-Miṣrīyah al-Barīṭānīyah, 1920-1924.
  • Bayna al-Islām wa-al-ʻUrūbah.
  • Al-Dīmūqrāṭīyah wa-niẓām 23 Yūliyū 1952-1970.
  • Dirāsāt fī al-dīmuqrāṭīyah al-Miṣrīyah.
  • Al-Ḥarakah al-siyāsīyah fī Miṣr, 1945-1952.
  • Al-Muslimūn wa-al-Aqbāt fī iṭār al-jamāʻah al-waṭanīyah.
  • Bayna al-jāmiʻah al-dīnīyah wa-al-jāmiʻah al-waṭanīyah fī al-fikr al-siyāsī.
  • Fi al-mas'alah al-Islamiyah al-mu'asirah bayna al-Islam wa al-'Urubah.
  • Māhiyāt al-muʻāṣarah.
  • Shakhṣīyāt tārīkhīyah.
  • Buḥūth muʼtamar miʼawīyat al-Imām al-Bannā : al-mashrūʻ al-iṣlāḥī lil-Imām Ḥasan al-Bannā : tasāʼulāt li-qarn jadīd.
  • Ummatī fī al-ʻālam : ḥawlīyat qaḍāyā al-ʻālam al-Islāmī, 1419-1420 H/1999 M.