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Jamal al-Din al-Afghani |
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Jamal al-Din al-Afghani(born 1838, Asadabad, Persia—died March 9, 1897, Istanbul) Muslim politician and journalist. He is thought to have adopted the name Afghani to conceal the fact that he was of Persian Shi'ite origin. He lived in Afghanistan from 1866, and a year later he became counselor to the khan. Displaced after a change of rulers, he went to Istanbul and then to Cairo in 1871. After becoming known as a rabble-rouser and heretic, he was deported from Egypt in 1879. By 1883 he was in Paris, where he championed Islamic civilization in the face of European domination. In Russia (1887–89) he seems to have worked as an anti-British agitator. His next stop was Iran, from which he was deported as a heretic in 1892; four years later he avenged himself by instigating the shah's murder. He died in Istanbul after failing to interest the sultan in his pan-Islamic ideas. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Abugideiri also discussed modern-day Muslim thinkers in the tradition of Jamal al-Din al-Afghani, who suggest that borrowing from the West while remaining true to Islam is the key to solving many of the dilemmas facing the Middle East today. Later on, it was Jamal al-Din al-Afghani (1838-98) and Mohamed 'Abdu (1849-1905) in Egypt, Sayyid Ahmed Khan (1817-98) and Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (1838-1908), in India at the end of the 19th century who gave that debate a fervent impetus. There are some minor inaccuracies: Jamal al-Din al-Afghani was not an Arab (127); The Hashemites are not a tribe--and they are descendants of the prophet Muhammad, not of his sister (152); Lord Moyne was assassinated by members of the "Israel's Freedom Fighters" -- known by the British as the "Stern Gang" and not by members of the Irgun (224); King Abdullah was murdered in 1951, not in 1950 (239). |
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