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Advice (Primary Source)
Shaykh al-Amin bin ‘Ali Mazrui (Kenya, 1890–1947) was the scion of a long line of religious scholars from the large Mazrui clan, which had ...
By: Shaykh al-Amin bin ‘Ali al-Mazrui
And Seek Their Counsel in the Matter [Qur'an, Sura 3, Verse 159] (Primary Source)
Nam îk Kemal (Turkey, 1840–1888) was a leading advocate of constitutionalism and a famous poet and playwright. He received little formal education and spent ...
By: Namîk Kemal
Asian Dawn (Primary Source)
Hadji Agus Salim (Sumatra-Java, 1884–1954) was a Muslim political activist, journalist, and intellectual. He was born in a state functionary's family, attended Dutch colonial ...
By: Hadji Agus Salim
Back to the Qur'an (Primary Source)
Muhammad Akram Khan (Bengal-Pakistan, 1868–1968) was a controversial reformer and journalist. Born near Calcutta, Khan began his higher education at an English-medium school, then ...
By: Muhammad Akram Khan
The Caliphate and the Bases of Power (Primary Source)
A disciple of ‘Abduh, he studied at al-Azhar and later at Oxford University. In the debate that followed the abolition of the caliphate in ...
By: ‘Alī ‘Abd Al-Rāziq
Debate between a Teacher from Bukhara and a European (Primary Source)
Abdurrauf Fitrat (Bukhara, 1886–1938) was the most prominent modernist figure in Russian Central Asia. The son of a prosperous merchant, Fitrat received a traditional ...
By: Abdurrauf Fitrat
Democracy: Government by the People, Equality (Primary Source)
Ali Suavi (Turkey, 1839–1878) was a leading figure in the Young Ottoman political reform movement and in the search for Islamic justifications of constitutionalism. ...
By: Ali Suavi
Democratic Institutions in South Africa (Primary Source)
Abdullah Abdurahman (South Africa, 1870–1940) was the pre-eminent political leader of South Asians in South Africa in the first half of the twentieth century. ...
By: Abdullah Abdurahman
Doctor Muhammad-Yar (Primary Source)
Abdulhamid Sulayman, writing under the pseudonym Cholpan (Uzbekistan, 1893–1938) was one of the founders of modern Uzbek literature. As poet, playwright, novelist, and translator, ...
By: Abdulhamid Sulayman Cholpan
The Emancipation of Woman and The New Woman (Primary Source)
Qasim Amin (Egypt, 1863–1908) was renowned for his support of women's liberation in the Islamic world. Amin was born in Alexandria to an Egyptian ...
By: Qasim Amin
The Extraction of Gold, or an Overview of Paris and The Honest Guide for Girls and Boys (Primary Source)
Rifa‘a Rafi‘ al-Tahtawi (Egypt, 1801–1873) was a pioneering figure in the Arab intellectual awakening of the nineteenth century. Tahtawi was born in Tahta, Upper ...
By: Rifa‘a Rafi‘ al-Tahtawi
Fatherland and Patriotism (Primary Source)
He studied at al-Azhar University and was appointed imām of the first large student mission sent by Muhammad ‘Alī to Paris. His five years ...
By: Rifā ‘A Badawī, Rāfi’ Al-Tahtāwī
First Steps toward Civilizing the Russian Muslims (Primary Source)
Ismail Bey Gasprinskii (Crimea, 1851–1914), Tatar reformer, educator, and publicist, was the most influential architect of Islamic modernism among the Turkic subjects of the ...
By: Ismail Bey Gasprinskii
The Flow and Ebb of Islam (Primary Source)
Khwaja Altaf Hussein Hali (North India, 1837–1914) was a pioneer in modern Urdu poetry. He came from a learned family in Panipat, United Provinces, ...
By: Khwaja Altaf Hussein Hali
The Future of Culture in Egypt (Primary Source)
A childhood accident rendered him totally blind, but he persisted in studies, going on to al-Azhar and attending lectures at the new Egyptian University ...
By: Tāhā Husayn
Government in the Islamic Perspective (Primary Source)
Muhammad Husayn Na‘ini (Iran, 1860–1936) was an Iranian religious scholar who lived for decades at Shi‘i seminary cities in Iraq, which was part of ...
By: Muhammad Husayn Na‘ini
Guiding Mankind to Act on the Basis of Telegraphic Messages (Primary Source)
Jamal al-Din al-Qasimi (Syria, 1866–1914) was the leading proponent of Islamic modernism in early twentieth-century Damascus. His publications numbered more than two dozen and ...
By: Jamal al-Din al-Qasimi
Ibn Taymiyya (Primary Source)
Rizaeddin bin Fakhreddin (Tatarstan, 1858–1936) was a leading figure of the Tatar renaissance. Born in a village in Samara, Fakhreddin did not study in ...
By: Rizaeddin bin Fakhreddin
Ijtihad and Taqlid (Primary Source)
Syekh Ahmad Surkati (Sudan-Java, 1872–1943) was an educator, intellectual, and businessman. Originally from a pious family in the Sudan, he received a traditional Muslim ...
By: Syekh Ahmad Surkati
Ijtihad and the Refutation of Nabhani (Primary Source)
Mahmud Shukri al-Alusi (Iraq, 1857–1924) was the foremost proponent of religious reform in late Ottoman Iraq. A prolific writer, he addressed such controversial religious ...
By: Mahmud Shukri al-Alusi
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