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ʿAbduh, Muḥammad
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Muḥammad ʿAbduh was born around 1849 into a farming family in the Nile Delta. He received a traditional religious education, first at home, then in Ṭanṭā, and finally at Cairo’s Azhar mosque. In 1872 he started studying with Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī (1838-97), an Iranian political activist who tried to acquire a foll…

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Johanna Pink, “ʿAbduh, Muḥammad”, in: Encyclopaedia of the Qurʾān, General Editor: Johanna Pink, University of Freiburg. Consulted online on 19 March 2024 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1875-3922_q3_EQCOM_050483>
First published online: 2015



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