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Abd al-Hamid ibn Badis

عبد الحميد بن باديس

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An Algerian scholar and leader of the reform movement, born in Constantine in 1889 and died in 1940.

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Roles
Scholar · activist
Counted among
Sunni
Era
The Modern Era
Region
Maghreb
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The Colonial Era · The Contemporary Era · The Modern Era Contemporaries: A. K. Fazlul Huq · Abbas Hilmi II · Abd al-Qadir al-Maghribi · Abd el-Krim · Abdelaziz Thâalbi

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Place in the story

  • ScholarTradition

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Overview

Abd al-Hamid ibn Muhammad al-Mustafa ibn Badis was an Algerian scholar and leader of the reform movement. He was born in Constantine in 1889 CE (1307 AH) and died in 1940 CE (1359 AH). 1

People and things also explored

The seven ahruf· Hadith· Shama'il Muhammadiyya· The Prophetic sira· The Prophetic Sunna· Command, prohibition and capacity· The Sunna as explanation of the Qur'an· Bid'a (religious innovation)

Sources

  1. Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO , j.3 p.53
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People

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The seven ahruf

The Prophet's saying 'the Qur'an was revealed in seven ahruf, so read of it what is easy' — narrated through Umar's dispute with Hisham ibn Hakim over Surat al-Furqan; its exact meaning is one of the widest debates in Qur'anic sciences.