Islamic modernism
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Islamic modernism is a movement attempting to reconcile the Islamic faith with values perceived as modern such as democracy, civil rights, rationality, equality, and social progress. It featured a "cr
Islamic Modernism and Fundamentalism Genealogy
Ottoman intellectual and activist Namık Kemal (d. 1888)
Indian educationist and philosopher Syed Ahmad Khan (1817–1898)
Egyptian Islamic jurist and scholar Mahmud Shaltut
Jamal al-Din al-Afghani
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Sayyid Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī, also known as Jamāl ad-Dīn Asadābādī and commonly known as Al-Afghani, was a political activist and Islamic ideologist who travelled throughout the Muslim world during
Islamic modernism
…Prominent leaders of the movement include Sir Sayyid Ahmed Khan, Namık Kemal, Rifa'a al-Tahtawi, Muhammad Abduh (former Sheikh of Al-Azhar University), Jamal ad-Din al-Afghani, and South Asian poet Muhammad Iqbal. Since its inception, Islamic modernism has suffered from co-option of its original reformism by both secularist…
Al afghani
Asad Abadi Square in Tehran, Iran
Afghani as Haji Sharif, who inspired Saint-Yves d'Alveydre in legend of Agarttha and Synarchy.