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Muslim Brotherhood mourns death of Islamic thinker in Jordan

July 7, 2018 at 12:07 pm

The Muslim Brotherhood is mourning the death of one of its senior leaders, the Jordanian thinker and former minister , 84, Quds Press has reported.

Al-Farhan was a Jordanian citizen of Palestinian origin. He was born in 1934 in the Ein Karem neighbourhood of Jerusalem. As a young man he studied chemistry at the American University in Beirut then continued his higher education in the US, where he obtained his PhD.

The deceased was one of the senior leaders of the Islamic Movement, the head of the Scientific Association and a member of the first Jordanian Consultative Council.

Al-Farhan left the Islamic Movement in 1970 to become Jordan’s Minister of Education. During his time in the ministry, he supervised the syllabus used in Jordan’s schools. In 1973 he took charge of the Ministry of Religious Endowments (Awqaf) before being appointed as the head of the University of Jordan.

Upon his retirement from public office, he went back to the Muslim Brotherhood and became the Secretary of the Islamic Labour Front. He was a member of the Senate between 1989 and 1993 and, in 1994, he became the head of the private University of Al-Zarqaa, a post he held until 2007.