Abdel-Razzak el-Sanhuri or ‘Abd al-Razzāq al-Sanhūrī (1895-1971) was an Egyptian legal scholar and professor who drafted the first version of the Egyptian Civil Code in 1949. He wrote the draft of the Iraqi Civil Code with the help of many Iraqi Jurists guided by him. Forced into retirement by Nasser and physically attacked by a mob for attempting to restore constitutional government in 1954, Sanhuri left Egypt and helped draft the civil codes of pre-Baath Syria of Shukri al-Kuwatli, Jordan, and Libya and the commercial code of Kuwait. In 1970 Egypt awarded him its prize for social sciences.

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  • Abdel-Razzak el-Sanhuri or ‘Abd al-Razzāq al-Sanhūrī (1895-1971) was an Egyptian legal scholar and professor who drafted the first version of the Egyptian Civil Code in 1949. He wrote the draft of the Iraqi Civil Code with the help of many Iraqi Jurists guided by him. Forced into retirement by Nasser and physically attacked by a mob for attempting to restore constitutional government in 1954, Sanhuri left Egypt and helped draft the civil codes of pre-Baath Syria of Shukri al-Kuwatli, Jordan, and Libya and the commercial code of Kuwait. In 1970 Egypt awarded him its prize for social sciences. Sanhuri was known for attempting to recreate a "pure" Islamic law by modernizing the sharia using Western civil law, and the guidance when needed of an natural law obviously just to all, to guarantee justice above religion, ideology, and personal opinion in general, when all else fails to solve the problem . One commentator argued that Sanhuri's code reflected a "hodgepodge of socialist doctrine and sociological jurisprudence." Regardless of such interpretations, his place in the legal history of the modern Middle East is secure; his twelve-volume Al-Wasīṭ fī sharḥ al-qānūn al-madanī al-jadīd [Medium commentary on the new Civil Code] "adorns the bookshelves of many an Arab law firm, even in countries where the Egyptian Civil Code is not law" . (en)
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  • Abdel-Razzak el-Sanhuri or ‘Abd al-Razzāq al-Sanhūrī (1895-1971) was an Egyptian legal scholar and professor who drafted the first version of the Egyptian Civil Code in 1949. He wrote the draft of the Iraqi Civil Code with the help of many Iraqi Jurists guided by him. Forced into retirement by Nasser and physically attacked by a mob for attempting to restore constitutional government in 1954, Sanhuri left Egypt and helped draft the civil codes of pre-Baath Syria of Shukri al-Kuwatli, Jordan, and Libya and the commercial code of Kuwait. In 1970 Egypt awarded him its prize for social sciences. (en)
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  • Abd El-Razzak El-Sanhuri (en)
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