Rida, Rashid (1865–1935) Quick reference
A Dictionary of Politics in the Middle East
...Rida, Rashid ( 1865–1935 ) Scholar whose political philosophy had a profound impact on Islamist thought. Born in Lebanon, Rashid Rida spent most of his working life in Cairo, where he founded an influential magazine, Al-Manar , in 1898 . Al-Manar applied Quranic teachings to develop a modernist interpretation of Islamic reform. Rida was a student of Mohammad Abdu and set out to reform the practice of religion to make it accessible to mass participation. Rida called for Muslim unity in the face of European encroachment as well as the establishment...
Rashīd Riḍā (1933) Reference library
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
... Riḍā (d. 1933 ). A Syrian Muslim, supporter of reform and an influential Muslim scholar. He championed al-Afghānī and ʿAbduh 's vision of a dynamic Islam. He saw the important need for modification of the existing sharīʿa : Islamic law had to face the realities of the modern world. In this matter Riḍā adopted a very controversial position. He refused to admit that the four recognized law schools, Mālikite , Hanafite , Shāfiʿite , and Hanbalite , were binding upon the modern ʾumma . Instead, Riḍā advocated that Islamic law be redrafted, based...
Rida, Rashid (1865–1935) Reference library
The Biographical Encyclopaedia of Islamic Philosophy
..., Rashid ( 1865–1935 ) Muhammad Rashid Rida (Ridha) was born in Tripoli, Lebanon and attended a school based on the views of a local shaykh , Husayn al-Jisr , who based the curriculum on the idea that there was no incompatibility between Islam and modernity. While in Lebanon he digested the views of al-Afghani and Muhammad ‘Abdu and in 1897 he moved to Cairo to be with the latter and support his project of reviving the Islamic world within a modern context. He established a highly influential journal al-Manar (The Lighthouse or Beacon) which he...
Rashīd Riḍā, Muḥammad Reference library
The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World
...Excellent biographical source on Rashīd Riḍā by one of his close friends. Enayat, Hamid . Modern Islamic Political Thought . Austin, Tex., 1982. Excellent analysis of Rashīd Riḍā's perceptions of the Islamic state and the caliphate. Hourani, Albert . Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age, 1798–1939 . London, 1970. Provides indispensable background to Rashīd Riḍā and his thought. Kerr, Malcolm H. Islamic Reform: The Political and Legal Theories of Muḥammad ʿAbduh and Rashīd Riḍā . Berkeley, 1966. Thorough analysis of Rashīd Riḍā's interpretations of legal...
Riḍā, Muḥammad Rashīd (1865–1935) Reference library
Scott Morrison
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Science, and Technology in Islam
...Rashīd Riḍā’s Ideas on the Caliphate.” Journal of the American Oriental Society 117, no. 2 (April-June 1997): 253–277. A historical contextualization and periodization of Riḍā’s thoughts on Islamic caliphate and its variants. Kerr, Malcolm H. Islamic Reform: The Political and Legal Theories of Muhammad ʿAbduh and Rashīd Riḍā . Berkeley: University of California Press, 1966. A text-bound examination of Riḍā’s theory of Islamic jurisprudence and rule. Ryad, Umar . Islamic Reformism and Christianity: A Critical Reading of the Works of Muḥammad Rashīd...
Rashīd Riḍā, Muḥammad Reference library
Emad El-Din Shahin and Nael Shama
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Politics
...Oxford University Press, 1933. Arslān, Shakīb . Al-Sayyid Rashīd Riḍā wa-ikhāʾ arbaʿīn sanah [Rashīd Riḍā and Forty Years of Brotherhood]. Damascus: Maṭbaʿat Ibn Zaydūn, 1937. Enayat, Hamid . Modern Islamic Political Thought . Austin: University of Texas Press, 1982. Hourani, Albert . Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age, 1798–1939 . London and New York: Oxford University Press, 1970. Kerr, Malcolm H. Islamic Reform: The Political and Legal Theories of Muḥammad ʿAbduh and Rashīd Riḍā . Berkeley: University of California Press, 1966. Al-Manār magazine...
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Dictionary of African Biography
...from the 1920 s onward, with the older Arabian puritanical tradition of Wahhabism, promoted by the emerging Saudi state. Rashid Rida, like most Egyptians, had been opposed to this, but he later changed his position to one of support for it. He published a series of pro-Wahhabi articles in both al-Mannr and the mainstream Egyptian newspaper al-Ahram ; they later appeared in book form. One of the causes espoused by Rashid Rida, as part of his Salafi ideals, was Pan-Islamism, which in his view involved the restoration of a universal Islamic state under...
Rashid Rida, Muhammad (1935) Quick reference
The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
...Rashid Rida, Muhammad (d. 1935 ) Syrian Islamic revivalist, reformer, and writer. Lived in Egypt from 1897 until his death. Close associate and disciple of Muhammad Abduh . Published the journal Al-manar to articulate and disseminate reformist ideas and preserve the unity of the Muslim nation. Concerned with the preservation of Muslim identity and culture. Viewed original Islamic sources—the Quran , Sunnah, and ijma (consensus) of Muhammad 's companions—as the basis for reform. Believed that matters of worship (ibadat), intended to organize human...
Rashid Rida
Muhammad Rashid Rida
Ḥukūmah
Authority and Legitimation
Talfiq
al- Urwat al-Wuthqa
Jamiat al-Dawah wa'l-Irshad
al- Manar
Abu Ishaq Ibrahim al- Shatibi
Tablīgh
Hasan al- Banna
