Muhammad Najati Sidqi

Muhammad Najati Sidqi (Arabic: محمد نجاتي صدقي, Muḥammad Najātī Ṣidqī, 19 May 1905 – 17 November 1979) was a Palestinian public intellectual and activist,^[1][2] trade unionist,^[3] translator, writer, critic and erstwhile communist. Though almost forgotten as a figure in the Palestinian movement for independence,^[4] he played an important role in it, and witnessed many momentous moments in the early history of the 20th century. Aside from his native Arabic, he was fluent in French, Russian and Spanish.

He was present with his father when Sherif Hussein launched the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire in 1916; the beginning of Zionist immigration to Palestine; the early years of the establishment of communism in the Soviet Union, and was one of the few Arabs who fought on the Republican side against Franco in the Spanish Civil War.^[5] At the outbreak of World War II, he wrote a book in which the thesis of the incompatibility of Nazism with Islam was passionately argued.^[6][a]

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