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Abdul Latif Al-Tayyibawi was born in the city of Taybeh in the occupied interior on April 29, 1910. He studied primary school at the Tulkarm Emirate School and secondary school at the Arab College in Jerusalem. He received a bachelor's degree in history and Arabic literature from the American University of Beirut in 1929 and a doctorate in philosophy from University College London.
He worked as a history teacher at the Ramla School and the Arab College in Jerusalem between (1929-1931), became a private secretary to the Director General of Education between (1931-1935), worked as an inspector and educational supervisor in several schools in Palestinian cities between (1935-1941), became a general inspector in Jerusalem in 1948, and was a lecturer at the Institute of Education (IOE) at University College London (UCL) until 1978, and a visiting professor at Harvard University for three years.
He established a fund to support Palestinian graduate students at the School of Oriental and African Studies in Britain.
At the beginning of his life, he published an article about the First World War in the Egyptian magazine Al-Hilal. Then he published a number of articles on politics, history, literature and education in Palestinian and Arab magazines and newspapers under his own name and pseudonyms, including: the Palestinian Defense newspaper, and magazines such as: Al-Kashaf, Al-Muntada, Al-Qafila, and the Arab College magazine. He participated in editing a number of Arab cultural magazines such as: Al-Muqtataf and Al-Usur Al-Masriyat, and Al-Arabi Al-Kuwaitiya. He presented programs on Palestinian radio in Jerusalem before 1948, in which he dealt with topics in history, education and literature, and he gave lectures in Palestinian clubs such as the Arab Club in Jaffa, and the Arab College in Jerusalem.
He was active at the Islamic Cultural Centre in London, where he lectured and wrote for the Centre's periodical, "The Islamic Quarterly." He participated in the activities of the European Islamic Council and several British cultural and academic institutions. He prepared and presented cultural and historical programs for the BBC and contributed to its magazine, "The Arab Listener." He also worked as an editor for several Arabic newspapers and magazines in the diaspora, such as the London-based "Al-Arab" and "The Islamic Quarterly." His historical studies include: "Al-Ghazali in Damascus and Jerusalem" (1966), "The Arab Literature Society in Jerusalem" (1974), "The Western Wall and Islamic Endowments in its Western Region" (1980), "Scholars of Jerusalem in the Twelfth Century" (1981), "Commentary on German Colonies in Palestine" (1981), and "Some Islamic Schools in Jerusalem" (1983).
He has a number of publications in Arabic and English, including: Arab Islamic Mysticism: A Study in the Development of Arab Thought (1928), The Brethren of Purity (1930), Arab Education in Palestine during the Mandate (1956), British Interests in Palestine 1800-1901 (1961), Lectures on the History of the Arabs and Islam (1963), English-Speaking Orientalists (1964), English-Speaking Orientalists: A Critical Study (1964), Al-Ghazali’s Jerusalem Epistle (1965), American Interests in Syria 1800-1901 (1966), Russian Cultural Penetration in Syria and Palestine in the Nineteenth Century (1966), A History of Modern Syria, Including Lebanon and Palestine (1969), Jerusalem and its Status in Islam and Arab History (1969), Islamic Endowments near Al-Aqsa Mosque, Islamic Education: Its Origins and Modernization in Arab Education Systems (1972).
Some of his books have been translated from English into Arabic, French, Italian and Persian. The total number of his books, research and articles exceeded 155 titles up to 1978.
He won first prize in the literary competition of “Al-Hilal Magazine” in 1925, the Monroe Prize for his study “Christians in the time of the Prophet Muhammad and the two Rightly Guided Caliphs Abu Bakr and Omar”, the Howard Bliss Prize in the scientific research competition for his study on the Brethren of Purity group, and he received the Monroe Prize for his research on Islamic scientific institutes in Jerusalem. The Islamic Cultural Centre in London published a scholarly book in English in honor of his scholarly career entitled “An Arab and Islamic Laurel Wreath: Historical, Educational and Literary Articles Presented to Abdul Latif Al-Tayyibawi by Colleagues, Friends and Students” (1977). It was co-authored by thirty-one writers from universities in the United States, Europe and the Arab world, including: Isaac Musa Al-Husseini, Tarif Al-Khalidi and Ibrahim Abu-Lughod. The Creativity Care Committee in the city of Taybeh reprinted some of his writings in a special book entitled “Five Arab Works”, named a street in the city after him, and organized a celebration to commemorate his memory and his scholarly contributions.
He was involved in a traffic accident on one of the streets of London on his way to the School of Oriental and African Studies, and died as a result on the sixteenth of October 1981.
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