Persons

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List of persons names (and their functions) used in AWR-Articles

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Name Function
Lenart Škof (Prof. Dr.)

Prof. Dr. Lenart Škof, Science and Research Centre Koper, Slovenia / Alma Mater Europaea, Slovenia / European Academy of Arts and Sciences, Austria

Leo C. (1925-2000)
Leo Shea

American priest who was in Egypt

Leo Strauss (Philosopher)
Léon Buskens

an anthropologist studying law and culture in Muslim societies.

Leon Cooperman

Leon G. "Lee" Cooperman is a jewish American billionaire investor and hedge fund manager. He is the chairman and CEO of Omega Advisors

Leonardo Da Vinci (Polymath)

15th Century Italian painter and intellectual

Leonardo Leo
Leonardo Sandri (Prefect of the congregation for Eastern Catholic Churches‎- Vatican Cardinal)
Lewis Constantine Andraous
Lex Runderkamp

Dutch journalist and filmmaker. He is known for his film on the Marinab church burning, which took place  in the village of Marinab, Idfu, Egypt in 2011.

Liamine Zéroual

Former President of Algeria

Lila Abu-Lughod [Laylā Abū Lughud] (Prof.)

Palestinian-American anthropologist. Writing about Muslim women. She tried to uncover the embedded biases that characterize the Western discourses on the status and role of Muslim women.

Līliyān Dāwūd [Liliane Daoud]

Egyptian TV-journalist

Lina Ashour
Lina Larsen (Dr.)

Dr. Lina Larsen is a lecturer at Institute for Islamic/Christian understanding in Norway

Lina Murr Nehme ‎(French cartoonist)
Lindsay Rodriguez

An American lobbyist employed by Coptic Solidarity.

Lindsey Graham (Politician)

American senator in 2013

Liu Zhenmin

Head of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs - UN DESA

Liza van de Linde

employee of Christian owned day-care centre for disabled children in Maʿādī 1995

Liza Yūsuf Rizq

Converted to Islam with her five children according to a newspaper article in Al-Maydān (2005) written by ʿAbd al-Rashīd Mutāwiʿ [Ref. AWR, 2005, week 5, art. 2]

llhām Ṣalāḥ
Lloyd Austin
Longinus (Saint)
Lotfi Laamari [Luṭfī al-ʿImārī] (Tunisian journalist)

Tunisian journalist & TV presenter

Louie Gohmert (Politician)

American politician, Republican Party

Louis IX (Saint)

King of France (1226-1270)

Louis Massignon (Father)

French scholar of Islam and its history (1883-1962)

Louis Raphaël I Sako (Chaldean Archbishop of Kirkuk)

President of Iraq’s council of Catholic Churches’ committee for inter religious dialogue.

Louis ʿAwwād (Dr.)

Egyptian Thinker and Author (1915-1990); Head of the English Department, Faculty of Arts Cairo University

Louis-Ferdinande Celine ‎(anti-Semitic French writer of the 1930s)
Lubnā Khālid al-Qāsimī (Shaykha)
Lubnā ʿAwwād

Lubnā ʿAwād was allegedly accused by her husband of converting to Islam and marrying a Muslim in order to obtain a document from the church so that he could marry again [AWR, 2007, week 19, art. 52]

Luboš – born 1939
Luc Ferry (former Minister of Education, France)
Luigi Manconi (Italian Senator)
Luis Antonio Tagle (Cardinal)

is a Filipino prelate (cardinal) of the Catholic Church who has been the Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of of Peoples since December 8, 2019. 

Luīs Jrīs [Louis Greis]‎

Egyptian author (1928-)

Lūkās (Bishop)

Bishop of Abnūb (Since 1986); Head of the Mar Mina Monastery

Lukas Behrenbeck

Intern at CAWR (Summer 2016).

Lūlā Kīlānī

Author

Lūqā Yūnān
Luṭfī al-Numayrī

Author; Member of the Egyptian Writers' Union

Luṭfī al-Sayyid

Egyptian journalist and lawyer; First director of the Cairo University

Luṭfī Duwaydār (Dr.)

Professor at Alexandria University, a surgeon and the head of the University from 1971 to 1976.

Luṭfī Laḥām (Father)

Greek-Melkite Catholic Patriarchal Vicar in Jerusalem

Luṭfī Sharīf (Dr.)

Egyptian Egyptologist

Luṭfī al-Khūlī

Columnist at al-Ahrām newspaper; Intellectual associated with the Nasserist regime

Luṭfī ʿAbd al-Wahāb (Prof.)

Professor of Greco Roman Civilization, Faculty of Arts, Alexandria University

Lutūs Kīwān

Author

Luwīs Grays [Louis Greiss] (Journalist)

Journalist

Luʾay Maḥmūd Saʿīd (Prof.)
Lūʾay Saʿīd (Dr.)
Lydia Dionís Giordano

Lydia Dionís Giordano, Blanquerna Observatory on Media, Religion and Culture, Spain

Lydia Farīd

Author

Lynn Allhusen
Lynne Stewart (Lawyer)

U.S Activist; Former lawyer; Convicted on charges of conspiracy and providing material support to terrorists

M.A. Muqtedar Khan (Dr.)
Ma Fuxiang

Ma Fuxiang (1876-1932) – Chinese Muslim warlord during the late Qing dynasty and the early Republic. As a member of the Ma Clique, a family clan of Muslim warlords in China’s Northwest, Ma ruled over Ningxia province. He is particularly noted for his generous donations to Islamic education in China, being a main financier of influential Muslim schools in Beijing and Shanghai. 

Ma Jian 'Muḥammad' [Muḥammad Mākīn al-Ṣīnī] (Chinese Islamic Scholar)

‘Muhammed’ Ma Jian (1906-1978) – Chinese Muslim scholar from Yunnan, who was among the first delegation of government-sponsored Chinese scholars to Al-Azhar in 1931. Ma spent eight years in Egypt and became influential in shaping relations between China and Egypt, propagating his modernist and reformist views on Chinese Islam. Ma engaged in extensively in publication and translation. Upon his return to China, he became one of the leading academics on Arabic and Islam at Beijing University. 

Ma Songting

Ma Songting (1895-1992) – Chinese Muslim dignitary and one of the ‘Four Great Ahongs’ of the 20th century. Ma founded the Chengda Normal School in Beijing, a centre for Islamic education in China. In 1932 and 1936, Ma accompanied the second and third group of Al-Azhar scholars to Cairo, where he was received by King Fu’ad and King Farouk of Egypt.

Maarten Groen (Rev.)

Christian Reformed Pastor in The Hague, The Netherlands, since 2009

Mabrūk ʿAṭiyya (Muslim Preacher)

a tv presenter and preacher in islam

Madeleine Albright (Dr.)

U.S. Secretary of State (1997-2001); US Ambassador to the UN (1993-1997); Professor at Georgetown University

Madīḥa Khaṭṭāb
Madīḥa ʿImāra [Madiha Emara]

Egyptian journalist

Madkūr Thābit
Madonna (Pop Singer)

U.S. pop singer and actress

Mads Akselbo Holm

Danish AWR intern (2007)

Magdalena Maghrabī
Magdi Yacoub [Majdī Ya’qūb] ‎(Dr.)

Egyptian international Heart surgeon; Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College Faculty of Medicine, London (1935-2005)

Māgid Kāmil

a member of the papal commission for church history

Magnus Hirschfeld

German Jewish Sexologist, advocated the rights of homosexuals, transsexual and transgender people as well as women's rights including the legalization of abortion. He opened the first Institute for Studies of Sexuality in Berlin in 1919 and initiated the first Congress for Sexual Reform in 1921 during the Weimarer Republic. Due to repressions, slander and attacks against his institute, Hirschfeld decided to emigrate to Switzerland and afterwards to France where he died in Nice in 1935.   

Mahathir Bin Muhammad (Malaysian Politician)

the Fourth Prime Minister of Malaysia (1981-2003); Author

Mahdī ʿĀkif

old past Guide of the MB

Maher Khella
Maḥfūẓ Naḥnāḥ

(27.1.1942 – 19.6.2003) was the leader of the Islamist political party Movement of Society for Peace (Hamas) in Algeria.

Maḥfūẓ Ṣābir
Maḥfūẓ ʿIzzām

Egyptian Lawyer; Vice president of the Labor Party

Māhī Sharīf (Mahy Sherif)
Māhīnūr al-Maṣrī [Mahienour al-Masry]

Egyptian lawyer and human rights activist, she has been sentenced to two years in prison for participating in 'illegal demonstrations' 

Māhir Abd al-Wahid
Māhir al- Jawharī
Māhir al-Bahayrī

First deputy of the constitutional court head

Māhir al-Jindī (Dr.)

Former Governor of Giza

Māhir Farghalī

an expert on Islamist movements in Egypt and a former member of Gamaa al Islamiya

Māhir Ḥalīm
Māhir Ḥassan

Author

Māhir Khillah (Mr.)

National Democratic Party Coptic candidate in Alexandria

Māhir Mīkhāʾīl Ghālī
Māhir Sāmī Mīkhāʾīl (Gen.)
Māhir Yūsuf (Mr.)
Māhir ʿAbd al-Wāḥid (Dr.)

Councilor, Attorney General, Former Chairman of the Supreme Consititutional Court

Māhir ʿAyyād

Author

Māhir ʿAzīz (Coptic Consultive Council)

Member of the Coptic Consultive Council, the structure of the Coptic Consultative Council was yet to be determined in May 2013, but in these initial stages it was being led by a thirteen member executive board. These were unelected back then, self-selected by virtue of their leading role in bringing the council together [ref. Arab-West Papers Nr. 44]

Māhir ʿAzīz Ḥannā

Also known as Monk Bulus al-Riyani.

Maḥjūb al-Tijānī [Mahgoub el Tegani]

Sudanese Human Rights Organization representative - Cairo branch, 1995.

Mahmood Mamdani [Academic]
Mahmoud Bayram Al Tounsi

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