CONTRIBUTION TO THE INTELLECTUAL HISTORY OF POLISH-LITHUANIAN TATARS – ALI ISMAIL WORONOWICZ (1902 – 1941) AND HIS WORK

• Authors: Dziekan Marek M.
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This article is devoted to an eminent Polish-Tatar Orientalist, writer and activist of the first part of the 20th century, Ali Ismail Woronowicz. From 1937 he was an imam of the Muslim community of the city of Warsaw, and from 1938 he looked after Muslims in the Polish army. From 1933, he was a member of the editorial staff of the scholarly journal Rocznik Tatarski [Tatar Yearbook]. In 1941 he was accused of espionage and arrested by the NKVD. The subsequent fate of Woronowicz is unknown; he was probably killed by the Soviet army. Woronowicz published in Polish and foreign scholarly and popular periodicals. He focused mainly on the study of the Tatar region in the Polish-Lithuanian territories. In 1936, in Cairo, he published a brochure in Arabic Al-Islām fī Būlūnyā [Islam in Poland], which was probably the first publication about Poland in Arabic in the Middle East. While still studying in Cairo, he began working on the monograph “The Life of the Prophet Muhammad and the Dawn of Islam”.

Keywords

EN

ALI WORONOWICZ; POLAND; ISLAM; POLISH-LITHUANIAN TATARS; POLITICS; INTERWAR PERIOD

• Publisher: Institute of Oriental Studies, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Asian and African Studies
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 31
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 141 – 156

Contributors

author

Dziekan Marek M.

• Department of Middle East and North Africa, University of Łódź, Narutowicza 59a, 90-131 Łódź, Poland

• https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0291-2997

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/aassav.2022.31.1.07