Muhammad Taqi-ud-Din al-Hilali
Muhammad Taqi-ud-Din bin Abdil-Qadir Al-Hilali , [Takki ed-Din el-Hilali / Al-Hilali (محمد تقي الدين الهلالي)] (1893-1987) was a 20th-century Moroccan Salafi, a translator of Islamic texts.
After finishing his duration of teaching in Mecca, Hilali enrolled in Baghdad University; he also served as an assistant professor while there. Hilali returned briefly to India for a second time, and enrolled in the University of Lucknow as both a student and a teacher, the most prominent of his own being Abul Hasan Ali Hasani Nadwi.
A disciple of Sheikh Rashid Rida, then of Shakib Arslan[1] after he net him in Geneva,[2] the Salafi scholar and anti-colonial activist, began teaching Arabic at Bonn University in 1936.
It was Shakib Arslan who impacted al-Hilali greatly,[3] that went through a contact at the German Foreign Office and helped Hilali enroll at the University of Bonn.[2]
Moving to Berlin, he eventually married his landlady Anna Wogatzki.[3]
Al-Hilali became the head of the cultural department of the Palestine Mufti Mohammed Amin Al-Husseini's Foreign Office's Islamic Central Institute, as well as a Nazi Radio Berlin broadcaster in Arabic with Younis Bahri - "the voice of Hitler in Arabic." Al-Hilali used to review speeches and proofread them linguistically.[4]
A fan of Nazi Germany, swallowed Goebbels lying propaganda, linked Nazism to Islam - arguing that Nazis must have borrowed some of their principles from Islam, he also tried to convince that most Arabs, Iranians, Turks, and Berbers are "white."[3]
In 1942, the Mufti, Al-Husseini sent him to Morocco to organize covert operations.[5] The Nazis strove to increase their influence by sending al-Hilali, the Arabic speaker of Radio Berlin, to Tetouan to stir up anti-Jewish feeling in Spain.[6]
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- ↑ Halstead, John P.. Rebirth of a Nation; the Origins and Rise of Moroccan Nationalism, 1912-1944. United Kingdom: Center for Middle Eastern Studies of Harvard University, 1967. pp. 153, 257 [1].
Takki eddin al-Hilali, a disciple of Shakib Arslan, infiltrated the French zone and established contact with Moroccan nationalists. L'Afrique Française , of course, had much to say about Nazi provocation in North Africa...
The rise of Hitler changed nothing, and among the eminent Arabs welcomed in Berlin were the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and the Amir Shakib Arslan who had opted for the Axis as early as September 1939. Hitler employed the Moroccan physician Takki eddin al-Hilali originally from Tafilelt, as a propagandist on Radio Berlin and later as an agent in Tetuan where, among his other activities, he wrote for el-Hurriya. - ↑ 2.0 2.1 Boum, Aomar., Park, Thomas K.. Historical Dictionary of Morocco. United States: Scarecrow Press, 2006. 190.
In Geneva he met shakib arsalan, who introduced him to the University of Bonn where he studied Arabic literature. In 1940, al-hilali received a diploma of higher education in German linguistics. In 1942, he retumed to Morocco ..
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Lauzière, Henri. The Making of Salafism: Islamic Reform in the Twentieth Century. Philippines: Columbia University Press, 2015.
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Al-Hilali was in his early forties when he first met Arslan, but the latter was twenty-five years his senior and already a monument within the circles of Islamic reform. There is no doubt that Arslan greatly impressed al-Hilali, who named his first son Shakib as a token of his admiration for the emir.
[3][4]:After moving to Berlin, he rented a room from another landlady, Anna Wogatzki, whom he eventually married.
At the political level, al-Hilali had a marked preference for National Socialism and spoke highly of Hitler and the Nazi government. Echoing the products of Goebbel's propaganda machine, he explained that the Nazis had taken a country on the brink of ruin—namely, the powerless and disunited Weimar Republic with its seven million unemployed, its corrupted[sic] J... fifth column, and its rampant crime[sic]—and miraculously transformed it into an economic and military force. Al-Hilali not only hailed Nazi Germany as a potent example of the power of nationalism but also argued that such an efficient political system was so similar to the ideal of Islamic governance that Nazis must have borrowed some of their principles from Islam. He saw nothing despotic about Hitler's rule and considered Nazi ideology to be far better than democracy. This was all the more true, he claimed, given that two of the greatest so-called democracies, France and Britain, were colonial powers that denied Muslims their rights..
Al-Hilali was not insensitive to racial stigmatization in Nazi Germany, and it is likely that he experienced discrimination. His writings suggest that he may have been mistaken for a Jew, and he was mistaken for being Japanese at least once. But although he condemned racial ideologies, he did little to undermine the heart of Nazi discourse. Instead, he strove to argue that most Arabs, Iranians, Turks, and Berbers were in fact white. - ↑ "Berlin Arab Radio" .. When Hitler addressed the Arab peoples with the voice of the Iraqi Younis Bahri. Arabic Post, 08/18/2022.
... Motivating songs and sermons in Arabic and verses from the H... Quran from the heart of Berlin.
Younes Bahri settled in Berlin, and because of his previous relations, he was able to approach the Nazi Minister of Propaganda, "Goebbels" and meet the Nazi leader Hitler, until Younes attended Nazi rallies and celebrations while wearing a military uniform and a Nazi insignia in his arm.
And only 3 days after he left Baghdad, the Arabs heard for the first time the voice of Yunus Bahri saying: “Here is Berlin, the neighborhood of the Arabs” on April 7, 1939. As for the reason for choosing this particular phrase, Younos Bahri says in his memoirs that he wanted To greet the Arabs in the manner of the Nazi salute, but in Arabic.
According to Younis Bahri's memoirs, he asked Goebbels to agree to broadcast the .. Qur'an on "Berlin Arab Radio", in order to attract Arab listeners, so that he would start sending the radio. Goebbels hesitated at first and conveyed the proposal to Hitler, who approved it.
After Younis Bahri explained to him that broadcasting the .. Qur’an would attract the attention of Arab listeners, and push them to refrain from listening to the BBC, which was not broadcasting the Qur’an, the result was that the "Berlin Arab Radio" became the favorite among Arabs to hear news of war and battles. Germany against the Allies.
The radio station received the support of many Arab personalities, such as the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini, and the Moroccan preacher, Taqi al-Din al-Hilali, who used to review speeches and proofread them linguistically. Many of those personalities supported the radio, because for them it was a lifeline to get rid of British and French colonialism in the Arab countries.
Amin al-Husseini was sending appeals to the Palestinians via the "Arab Berlin" radio, and inciting them to resist the British, but there was no one as famous as Younis Bahri on that radio, and soon Younis Bahri became the semi-official spokesman for Hitler and his Nazi forces, and he delivered speeches signed by Hitler and addressed to the people Arabic. But Yoinis often deviated from the approach of the station by cursing the kings of Egypt and Iraq and accusing them of employment and slavery, and the guardian of the throne in Iraq, Prince "Abdul-Ilah", was the largest part of his insults, as well as the Iraqi Prime Minister at the time, "Nuri al-Saeed" and King "Abdullah" in Jordan .
After he was the main factor in the success of the radio, and captured the ears of Arab listeners everywhere, the Mufti of Jerusalem, Amin al-Husseini, who had a relationship with the Nazi regime, decided to remove Younis Bahri from the radio.
Because he did not abide by the texts of the statements and comments that the Arab Bureau in Jerusalem prepared and sent to the radio, Yunus Bahri was agitated and added harsh phrases that were not written in the text.
With the fall of Germany in the hands of the Allied forces, that broadcast ended forever, but there are still many clips published on the Internet, recorded in the voice of Younis Bahri and his speeches from the "Arab Berlin Radio", as Younis Bahri documented all of them in his book "Here Berlin is the Arab neighborhood" which was published in thw year 1956 with eight parts. - ↑ Schwanitz, Wolfgang G.., Rubin, Barry. Nazis, Islamists, and the Making of the Modern Middle East. United Kingdom: Yale University Press, 2014. 137.
How, then, could al-Husaini bring German victory? On the North Af- rican front he was relatively weak, but he did have some useful agents. Chief among them was the Moroccan Taqi ad-Din al-Hilali.
Born in Casablanca, al-Hilali became an Islamist while studying in Cairo and living in Saudi Arabia. After six years in India and Iraq, the well-traveled al-Hilali was hired to teach Arabic at Bonn University in 1936. Obtaining his doctorate at Berlin University in 1941, the forty-five-year-old al-Hilali became head of the culture section of al-Husaini's Central Islam Institute abd a Radio Berlin broadcaster.
In 1942, al-Husaini sent him home to organize covert operations. One of al-Hilali's ideas was to persuade Vichy France to release some North African Arab nationalists if they agreed to join the Axis. The French did so, one of those let go being Tunisia's future president, al-Habib Burqiba, though he never actually helped the Germans. Those willing to collaborate were sent for training at the German commando base at Nizza, Italy. - ↑ The Maghreb Review: Majallat Al-Maghrib. United Kingdom: n.p., 1993. 41.
The Nazis strove to increase their influence by sending Takki ed-Din el-Hilali, the Arabic speaker of Radio Berlin, to Tetouan to stir up anti-Jewish feeling in Spanish Morocco, where there were nearly 13,000 Jews, besides those who lived in Ceuta and Melilla. Trips to Germany were funded and in Austria Shekib Arselan founded the Islamische Kulturbund.
