Shibli Shumayyil

Shibli Shumayyil (Arabic: شبلي شميل‎) was a doctor who also wrote in journals about Islamic socialism, and was a socialist Darwinist.

Early life

Shibli Shumayyil was born in 1850 to a Greek Catholic family in Kfarshima, Lebanon.[1]

Education

After leaving Kfarshima, Shumayyil would go to the Syrian Protestant College in Beirut.[1]

Career

Trained as a doctor at college, he would practice in Tanta for a decade before moving to Cairo. In Cairo, he would continue practicing as a doctor, and, in 1886, would start a medical journal called Al-Shifa. This journal would fail five years later, though he would write for other journals, such as al-Muqtataf.[1]

Politics

Shumayyil classed himself as a socialist Darwinist. This included his argument that rather than competition, that man relied on cooperation to progress. As part of his socialist beliefs, Shumayyil thought that the government should guarantee employment, provide education, medical care, and control wages. He also advocated against the current legal system, and advocated for its removal.[1]

Death

Shumayyil died in 1916.

References
  1. Reid, Donald M. “The Syrian Christians and Early Socialism in the Arab World.” International Journal of Middle East Studies, vol. 5, no. 2, 1974, pp. 177–193. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/162588.


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