Muhammad Abduh

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

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.

Sheikh Omar Abdelkafy recalls Muhammad Abduh's visit to Europe and his return. He says that Abduh found in their scripture the teaching to offer the other cheek, while the same people possessed a hundred fleets, and the speaker remarks, as his own opinion, on this contrast between word and deed ³.