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Sayyid Muhammad Rashīd Rida Al-Hussaini was an Islamic scholar, reformer, theologian and revivalist. An early Salafist, Rida called for the revival of hadith studies and, as a theoretician of an Islamic state, condemned the rising currents of secularism and nationalism across the Islamic world following the abolition of the Ottoman sultanate. He championed a global pan-Islamist program aimed at re…
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culture · Salafi reformist scholar and theologian (1865–1935) · Qur'anic exegete · philosopher · journal editor · journalist · ulema · Islamic theologian · also Rida Muhammad Rashid, Rashid Rida, Muhammad Rashid Rida, Ras̲h̲īd Riḍā, Rashid
Born 18 October 1865 · Died 22 August 1935 · Q471046
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“an was sometimes appropriate because he believed that many Muslims would have abandoned their faith without them. He counseled Najdi scholars on the necessity of balanced reform and sent them copies of Tafsir al-Manar to study. In a letter to al-Sa”
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The Islamic University of Medina was founded and served as an international seminary for the propagation of Salafi da'wa
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Died 1935-08-22.
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Riḍā told Muslims to unite and "take the path traced by our ancestors, who defeated the Jewish in the first epoch [of Islam] and expelled them from the Arabian Peninsula
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Forbidding Muslims from selling land to Jewish people in Palestine, ruling that such sales represented the "betrayal of Islam" and complicity with Zionism
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Was a manifesto in which he proclaimed that Islam was the only saviour for the deteriorating West
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Rida wrote that the Wahhabis had become a large group in Egypt, with adherents among the religious scholars at institutions such as Al-Azhar University
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Following heightened communal tensions, al-Manar published a series of anti-Shi'i articles written by Riḍā's disciple Muhammad Taqi ud din al-Hilali
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Rida and the Syrian–Palestinian Congress provided it full support, with financial backing from the nascent Saudi state
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Riḍā characterised the project as a long-term plot to displace the Arabic Qur'an and to tamper with Islamic rituals
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After Hussein's seizure of Hejaz, Rida called upon Arabian emirs to free Hejaz from Hashemite rule
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Distributed (Majmūʿat al-Rasāʾil waʾl-Masāʾil al-Najdiyya (The Compendium of Najdī Epistles and Responsa)
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Published Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab's Kashf al-Shubuhat (Removal of Doubts) and in 1920 pushed Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab as a mujaddid of Islam
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Began emphasizing that scholars of the early Ahl al-Hadith school were the ones who preserved the religion by resisting threats of heretical innovations
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Rida defined mad'hab al-salaf as "nothing other than to act according to the Qur'an
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CUP (Committee of Union and Progress) launched a coup to establish a one-party state under a de facto triumvirate of the Three Pashas, which consisted of Enver Pasha, Talaat Pasha, and Djemal Pasha
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Salafi scholars Muhibb al-Din al-Khatib and Abd al-Fattah al-Qatlan had begun working with Riḍā and their Salafiyya Bookstore was relocated and merged into Riḍā's Manar Bookstore
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Rida met with Mubarak Al-Sabah, the shaykh of Kuwait, but his relationships with Yahya and al-Idrisi were ruptured by the war
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Compiled under the title al-Muslimun wa-l-qubt (The Muslims and the Copts), he condemned Muslims for dividing over nationalism
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And the First Balkan War, Rida became deeply concerned about the imminent collapse of the Ottoman state and worried that colonial European empires would seize power from the Ottomans
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Wrote: "Islam is a religion of authority and sovereignty
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Following the Young Turk Revolution, after which Azm joined the Committee of Union and Progress to pursue modernism and Rida became a vocal critic of the Young Turks
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Rida was seen as his de facto successor despite privately holding reservations about Abduh's ideas
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Spoke of the Salafis as a collective noun, theologically distinct from the Ash'aris, and considered Wahhabis Salafis
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By answering questions sent in by readers to al-Manar
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Abd al-Rahman al-Kawakibi published Umm al-Qura, which detailed the idea of a World Muslim Congress for the first time
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Making him one of the earliest scholarly critics of the movement
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Rida began publishing articles encouraging Ottoman authorities to adopt a new religious strategy within the existing caliphal and pan-Islamic policy under Sultan Abd al-Hamid II
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Rida, along with Rafiq al-'Azm and Saib Bey, formed the Ottoman Consultative Society in Cairo
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Rida decided to study under Abduh's co-editor Jamal al-Din al-Afghani, who at that time was in Istanbul
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Born 1865-10-18.
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Into a distinguished Sunni Shafi'i clerical family
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