Fouad Zakariyya (orFuʼād Zakarīyā; 1927 – 13 March 2010) was an Egyptian philosopher, and critic of Islamist thought who is known as “the father of Arabexistentialism.”^[1][2]

Zakariyya was born in 1927.^[1] He studied atAin Shams University in Cairo, and obtained a doctorate in philosophy in 1956.^[3] Zakariyya was the head of the philosophy department atKuwait University from 1974 to 1991.^[1]

Zakarriya was a recipient of the Sultan Bin Ali Al Owais Cultural Award for Humanities and Future Studies.

• Myth and Reality in the Contemporary Islamist Movement^[1]

• The Incoherence of Islamic Fundamentalism

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