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Islamic organizations established in 1912
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Muhammadiyah
Muhammadiyah (), officially the Muhammadiyah Society () is a major Islamic non-governmental organization in Indonesia. The organization was founded in 1912 by Ahmad Dahlan in the city of Yogyakarta as a reformist socioreligious movement, advocating ijtihad—individual interpretation of ''Qur'an and sunnah, as opposed to taqlid—conformity to the traditional interpretations propounded by the ulama''. Since its establishment, Muhammadiyah has adopted a reformist platform mixing religious and secular education, primarily as a way to promote the upward mobility of Muslims toward a "modern" community