Muhammad Abduh
الشيخ محمد عبده
Egyptian reformer of the late 19th and early 20th century. Arslan, who studied under him in Beirut during Abduh's exile after the 'Urabi revolt (1886), calls him the teacher of the age and says that his reading of Islamic belief was the one that could revive the faith; Arslan also notes that Rashid Rida wrote his biography in two volumes 1.
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Overview
Shaykh Muhammad Abduh, one of the pioneers of Islamic reform in Egypt at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth. 2
His portrait
Shakib Arslan, in his commentary on Hadir al-Alam al-Islami, describes him as his teacher. He says that he got to know him in Beirut in 1886 during his exile after the Urabi revolt, and that he saw in his understanding of Islamic doctrine the path to the renaissance of Islam. He says that his pupil Rashid Rida wrote his biography in two volumes. 2
The source of this page is a single witness who admired the shaykh, and for that reason the dates of his exile and death need an additional source.
Sources
- Stoddard, Hadir al-ʿalam al-islami (Arabic translation with Arslan's commentary), vol. 1, scan pp. 300–302
- Stoddard, Hadir al-ʿalam al-islami (Arabic translation with Arslan's commentary)
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islam.museum contributors. “Muhammad Abduh”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/muhammad-abduh/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.