Abd El-Razzak El-Sanhuri
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1895 – 1971
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Who was Abd El-Razzak El-Sanhuri?
Abd el-Razzak el-Sanhuri or ‘Abd al-Razzāq al-Sanhūrī was an Egyptian legal scholar and professor who drafted the revised Egyptian Civil Code of 1948. 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 Husni al-Za'im, Jordan, and Libya and the commercial code of Kuwait
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