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Rashid Rida
Muhammad Rashid Rida (1865-1935) was a Syrian intellectual of the Islamic modernism tradition pioneered by Jamal al-Din al-Afghani and Muhammad Abduh. Like his predecessors, he focused on the relative weakness of Muslim societies vis-Ă -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.
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