Rashid Rida

Muhammad Rashid Raza
محمد رشید رضا
Muhammad Rashid Rida
TitleAllamah,[1][2]
Shaykh al-Islam,
Imam[3]
Personal
Born
Muḥammad Rashīd ibn ʿAlī Riḍā ibn Muḥammad Shams al-Dīn ibn Muḥammad Bahāʾ al-Dīn ibn Munlā ʿAlī Khalīfa[27]

(1865-09-23)23 September 1865[4] or (1865-10-17)17 October 1865[5]
Al-Qalamoun, Beirut Vilayet, Ottoman Empire (present-day Lebanon)
Died22 August 1935(1935-08-22) (aged 69)[5]
Cairo, Egypt
Cause of deathHeart attack[28]
Resting placeCairo, Egypt
ReligionIslam
Nationality
  • Ottoman (1865–1922)
  • Egyptian (1922–1935)
Era19th to early 20th century
RegionMiddle East[6]
DenominationSunni
JurisprudenceShafiʽi[7] Ijtihad[8][9]
CreedAthari[10][11]
Movement
OccupationMufti, Mufassir, Faqīh, Muhaddith[26]
Muslim leader
Influenced by
Influenced

Muhammad Rashid Rida (Arabic: محمد رشيد رضا, romanized: Muḥammad Rashīd Riḍā; 1865 – 22 August 1935) was an Islamic scholar, reformer, theologian and revivalist. An early Salafist, Rida called for the revival of hadith studies[18] and, as a theoretician of an Islamic state,[29] 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-establishing an Islamic caliphate.[30][31][29]

As a young hadith student who studied al-Ghazali and Ibn Taymiyya, Rida believed reform was necessary to save the Muslim communities, eliminate Sufist practices he considered heretical, and initiate an Islamic renewal.[32] He left Syria to work with Abduh in Cairo, where he was influenced by Abduh's Islamic Modernist movement[33][34][35][36] and began publishing al-Manar in 1898. Through al-Manar's popularity across the Islamic World, Rida became one of the most influential Sunni jurists of his generation, leading the Arab Salafi movement and championing its cause.[37][38][39]

He was Abduh's de facto successor and was responsible for a split in Abduh's disciples into one group rooted in modernism and secularism and the other in the revival of Islam. Salafism, also known as Salafiyya, which sought the "Islamization of modernity," emerged from the latter.[40][41][37]

During the 1900s Rida abandoned his initial rationalist leanings and began espousing Salafi-oriented methodologies such as that of Ahl-i Hadith. He later supported the Wahhabi movement,[41][36][42][43][44] revived works by ibn Taymiyyah, and shifted the Salafism movement into a more conservative and strict Scripturalist approach. He is regarded by a number of historians as "pivotal in leading Salafism's retreat" from the rationalist school of Abduh.[45][46][47][32][48] He strongly opposed liberalism, Western ideas, freemasonry, Zionism, and European imperialism, and supported armed Jihad to expel European influences from the Islamic World.[49] He also laid the foundations for anti-Western, pan-Islamist struggle during the early 20th century.[50]

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  10. ^ Lauzière, Henri (2016). The Making of Salafism: Islamic Reform in the Twentieth Century. New York: Columbia University Press. pp. 62–63. ISBN 978-0-231-17550-0. (Rida)... claimed to be Salafi in creed and relied more heavily on transmitted knowledge (naql) than did Muhammad Abduh.
  11. ^ Halverson, Jeffrey R. (2010). Theology and Creed in Sunni Islam. New York, USA: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 61–62, 71. ISBN 978-0-230-10279-8. ... the early progressive liberalism of these modernists quickly gave way to the arch-conservatism of Athari thinkers who held even greater contempt for the ideas of the nonbelievers (as well as liberals). This shift was most pronounced in the person of Rashid Rida (d. 1935), once a close student of 'Abduh, who increasingly moved to rigid Athari thought under Wahhabite influences in the early twentieth century. From Rida onward, the "Salafism" of al-Afghani and 'Abduh became increasingly Athari-Wahhabite in nature, as it remains today.
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  22. ^ Achcar, Gilbert (2016). Islamic exceptionalism: how the struggle over Islam is reshaping the world. New York: St Martin's Press. p. 91. ISBN 978-1-250-06101-0. The basic premise of Islamism was that Islam was the natural, authentic setting for all believing Muslims. In Rashid Rida's words, it was "the religion of innate disposition." In that sense, Islamism... was meant to resolve the problem of ideology.
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