title: Fouad Zakariyya
text: # Fouad Zakariyya
  
  Fouad Zakariyya (or Fuʼād Zakarīyā; 1927 – 13 March 2010) was an Egyptian philosopher, and critic of Islamist thought who is known as “the father of Arab existentialism.”
  
  ## Biography
  
  Zakariyya was born in 1927. He studied at Ain Shams University in Cairo, and obtained a doctorate in philosophy in 1956. Zakariyya was the head of the philosophy department at Kuwait University from 1974 to 1991.
  
  Zakarriya was a recipient of the Sultan Bin Ali Al Owais Cultural Award for Humanities and Future Studies.
  
  ## Books
  
  * Myth and Reality in the Contemporary Islamist Movement
  
  ## Articles
  
  * The Incoherence of Islamic Fundamentalism
  