al-Ḥawrānī, Akram - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Picard, Elizabeth
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Akram al-Ḥawrānī (1912-96) was a Syrian journalist, politician, and five-time member of the Syrian parliament. His life embodies the radical historical changes witnessed in twentieth-century Syria: the liberation from Ottoman, then Western, domination; the popular struggle to institute socialist rules against the system of "feudal" notables; and the advance of secularism and constitutionalism. Akram's father, a middle-class land-owner and member of the Rifāʿī Ṣūfī order, ran a textile workshop in Ḥamā. Akram studied in the Damascus Tajhīz, a famous preparatory school for boys,