Muhammad Abduh

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Muhammad Abduh
BirthplaceNile Delta, Egypt
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Muhammad Abduh

1849–1905, Egyptian Muslim religious reformer. His encounter in 1872 with Jamal ad-Din al-Afghani, in the Cairo mosque-university of al-Azhar, led to his transition from asceticism to an activism seeking the renaissance of Islam and the liberation of the Muslims from colonialism. Abduh advocated the reform of Islam by bringing it back to its pristine state, and casting off what he viewed as its contemporary decadence and division. His views were faced by opposition from the established political and religious order, but were later embraced by Arab nationalism after World War I.
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Las aportaciones de reformistas de finales del siglo XIX y principios del XX (por ejemplo, Al-Afghani, Muhammad Abduh, Muhammad Iqbal) han sido inspiradoras para pensadores y lideres de opinion en el entorno islamico actual: piensese en el controvertido Tariq Ramadan, en el presentador egipcio Arar Jaled, en el gran mufti yugoslavo Mustafa Ceric, en el turco Fethullah Gulen, y en muchos otros.
Sumision, determinismo y reformismo: Lopez Farjeat afirma en este ensayo que el Islam y la modernidad pueden ser compatibles: defiende que las reformas deben hacerse no desde la filosofia occidental sino desde el Islam mismo y cita las corrientes moderadas que se han dado a lo largo de su historia
This liberalizing trend within Islam was reversed, interestingly, by one of the followers of Muhammad Abduh, Muhammad Rashid Rida, editor of the Egyptian journal, al-Manar.
Keiko Sakai, Editor. Social Protests and Nation Building in the Middle East and Central Asia
Many Islamic modernists, such as Jamal Ad-Din al-Afghani, Muhammad Abduh, Muhammad Iqbal, Ali Shariati and Mehdi Barzargan, among others, are models of careful analysis.
Global Islamic Politics

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