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Angawi, Sami (1948–)
Sami Muhsin Angawi is a Saudi Arabian architect and social activist.
PERSONAL HISTORY
Angawi was born in Mecca, in the Hijaz region of Saudi Arabia, in 1948.
He received a B.A. in architecture from the University of Arlington, Texas, in 1971, and an M.A. in architecture from the University of Texas in 1975.
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In 1988, he completed his Ph.D. in Islamic architecture from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. Angawi spent two years teaching and supervising graduate students at King Abd al-Aziz University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and was a fellow at Harvard University in 1994–1995.
He also is a mutawwaf—a guide, or organizer, of parties of pilgrims making the Islamic pilgrimage (hajj), a position that has been been handed down through a small number of Hijazi families. Angawi also is a sufi (Islamic mystic) in a country that frowns upon such expression.
In 2001, he married his second wife, Fatina Anin Shakir (a well-known ret