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Muhammad Abduh

Muhammad Abduh (1849-1905) was an Egyptian reformer. He was the most important Islamic figure of the nineteenth century. He was a founder of Islamic modernism and sought to reform Al-Azhar University. He argued for Islamic receptivity to Western science and for a return to Islamic purity.

Wisdom & Quotes

  • Men have no better guidance than examples and facts proved by experience.
  • To reflect on the essence of the Creator… is forbidden to the human intellect because of the severance of all relation between the two existences.
- Risalat at-Tawhid

Emma Lazarus

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