Died 1897-03-09.
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Jamal al-Din al-Afghani
Sayyid Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī, also known as Jamāl ad-Dīn Asadābādī and commonly known as Al-Afghani, was a political activist and Islamic ideologist who travelled throughout the Muslim world during the late 19th century. He is one of the founders of Islamic Modernism as well as an advocate of Pan-Islamic unity in India against the British.
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culture · Political activist and Islamic ideologist (1838/1839–1897) · theologian · journal editor · journalist · politician · activist · religious writer · also Jamal al-Din al-Afghani, Jamal-al-Din Afghani, Cemâleddîn-i Efgānî, Al-Afghani, al-Afghani
Born 1838 · Died 9 March 1897 · Q298434
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1897· 2 entries
“The world is a game of chess; the loser loses and the winner wins.”
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1895· 1 entry
Al-Afghani was visited by a Persian ex-prisoner, Mirza Reza Kermani, who had been his servant and disciple, and together they planned the assassination of Emperor Naser al-Din of Iran
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1891· 1 entry
Transported to the border with Ottoman Iraq and expelled from Iran
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1884· 1 entry
Began publishing an Arabic newspaper in Paris entitled al-Urwah al-Wuthqa (Arabic: العروة الوثقى, lit
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1881· 2 entries
Decided that he was the most promising candidate for caliph, an opinion shared by Afghani and his disciple, Muhammad Abduh
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Published a collection of polemics titled Al-Radd ʻalā al-dahrīyīn "Refutation of the Materialists", agitating for pan-Islamic unity against Western imperialism
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1879· 1 entry
The year the Theosophical Society's founders arrived in Bombay
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1871· 2 entries
When he proceeded to Cairo, where his circle of disciples was similar to Blavatsky's Brotherhood of Luxor
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And al-Afghani was expelled
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1868· 1 entry
Sher Ali Khan prevailed against Muhammad Afzal and expelled al-Afghani from the country
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1866· 3 entries
We are left with several years unaccounted for
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Claimed to be from Constantinople, and he might not have made this claim if he had never even seen the city, and could be caught in ignorance of it
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And spent time in Kandahar, Ghazni, and Kabul
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1864· 1 entry
The Lodge "Henry IV" extended an invitation to him to join Freemasonry, which he accepted, being initiated at the Lodge of the Pyramids in Alexandria, Egypt
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1859· 1 entry
A British spy reported that Al-Afghani was a possible Russian agent
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1838· 1 entry
Born 1838.
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