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Muhammad Abduh
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Egyptian Islamic jurist, religious scholar and liberal reformer (1849-1905)
Muhammad Abduh was an Egyptian Islamic scholar and reformer in the late 1800s who worked to modernize Islamic thought and make it compatible with contemporary society. His ideas about reinterpreting Islamic law and education had significant influence on Islamic reform movements across the Arab world and beyond.
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- Born
- 1849
- Died
- 1905
- Works
- 53
Top works
- El-urvetu'l vuska (1884)
- al-Shaykh Muḥammad ʻAbdūh bayna al-falāsifah wa-al-kalāmīyīn
- al-Islām bayn al-ʻilm wa-al-madanīyah
- الاسلام والنصرانية مع العلم والمدنية
- 回教哲學, 一名, 回教一神論大綱
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Muhammad
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Ottoman Empire
- Place of birth
- Ottoman Empire
- Place of death
- Alexandria
- Educated at
- Al-Azhar University
- Employer
- Al-Azhar University
- Languages spoken
- Turkish
- Religion
- Sunni Islam
- Notable work
- Tafsīr al-Manār
- Student of
- Jamal al-Din al-Afghani
- Field of work
- politics
- Image
- Muhammad Abduh.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1849-01-01
- date of death
- 1905-07-11
- name in native language
- محمد عبده
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- Mohammed Abduh
- cause of death
- kidney cancer
- student
- As'ad al-Shuqayri
- name
- محمد عبده
- manner of death
- natural causes
- writing language
- Ottoman Turkish
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Encyclopedic overview
Muḥammad ʿAbduh (also spelled Mohammed Abduh; Arabic: محمد عبده; 1849 – 11 July 1905) was an Egyptian Islamic scholar, judge, and Grand Mufti of Egypt. He was a central figure of the Arab Nahḍa and Islamic Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
He began teaching advanced students esoteric Islamic texts at Al-Azhar University while he was still studying there. From 1877, with the status of ʿālim, he taught logic, theology, ethics, and politics. He was also made a professor of history at Dar al-ʿUlūm the following year, and of Arabic language and literature at Madrasat al-Alsun. ʿAbduh was a champion of the press and wrote prolifically in Al-Manār and Al-Ahram. He was made editor of Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriyya in 1880. He also authored Risālat at-Tawḥīd (Arabic: رسالة التوحيد; "The Theology of Unity") and a commentary on the Quran. He briefly published the pan-Islamist anti-colonial newspaper al-ʿUrwa al-Wuthqā alongside his teacher and mentor Jamāl ad-Dīn al-Afghānī.
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