Rashid Rida
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Muhammad Rashid Rida (1865-1935) was a Syrian intellectual of the Islamic modernist tradition pioneered by Jamal al-Din al-Afghani and Muhammad Abduh. Like his predecessors, he focused on the relative weakness of Muslim societies vis-à-vis Western colonialism, blaming Sufi excesses, the blind imitation of the past (taqlid), the stagnation of the ulama, and the resulting failure to achieve progress in science and technology. He held that these flaws could be allievated by a return to what he saw as the true principles of Islam, albeit interpreted (ijtihad) to suit modern realities.
He published a newspaper, al-Manar, from 1898 until his death in 1935.
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