Muhammad Abduh and the Islamic Reform Movement

Muhammad Abduh, the Grand Mufti of Egypt and pioneer of Islamic modernism, died in Cairo. With his teacher Jamal ad-Din al-Afghani and his student Rashid Rida, Abduh sought to reconcile Islamic tradition with modern thought. Their journal al-Manar and Abduh's educational reforms at al-Azhar influenced Islamic thought across the Muslim world.