1865–1935 CE · Islamic reformer; founder of the journal Al-Manar

Rashid Rida

Rashid Rida founded the journal Al-Manar in Cairo in 1898 to continue Muhammad Abduh's reformist project, describing his aim as recovering "the views of the early pious generation." His thought moved over time toward the more literalist, textualist approach associated with Ibn Taymiyyah, a shift historians treat as a pivotal hinge between Abduh's rationalist modernism and twentieth-century literalist Salafism.

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Islam or Muslim Culture? Measuring the Distance Between Revelation and Practice
A historical-critical essay testing whether practices commonly defended as Islamic -- from denying women their Qur'anic inheritance shares to state corruption and the political shaping of orthodoxy -- rest on the Qur'an itself, or on later interpretation, historical tradition, absorbed local custom, and political authority defended in revelation's name.

Rashid Rida

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Islam or Muslim Culture? Measuring the Distance Between Revelation and Practice