Salama Moussa
Salama Moussa (or Musa; 4 February 1887 – 4 August 1958) ( , ) was an Egyptian journalist, writer and political theorist. Salama Moussa was an avowed
secularist, he introduced the writings of
Darwin,
Nietzsche, and
Freud to Egyptian readers. Salama Moussa campaigned against traditional religions and urged the Egyptian society to embrace European thought, he espoused the theory of
evolution by natural selection. He was an
Egyptian nationalist. He was an advocate of
liberalism and a supporter of the
Egyptian liberal movement. Salama Moussa is from
Taha Hussein's generation;
Naguib Mahfouz called Salama Moussa his "spiritual father", whereas Salama Moussa acknowledged his own intellectual debt to
Ahmed Lutfi el-Sayed. Salama Moussa joined al-Wafd party after
Saad Zaghloul became the leader, he believed it to be essentially a call to independence. He looked for political and economic independence of Egypt from the British occupation. He popularised the idea of socialism in Egypt and advocated
egalitarian socialism. He was jailed in 1946 for criticizing the monarchy. Salama Moussa emphasized the unity of the
Egyptians, he praised Ahmed Lutfi el-Sayed for "paving the way for the
revolution of 1919 by uniting the Egyptian nation on a national stance".
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