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12/21/2009

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Term
Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab
Definition

d.1795

Saudi Arabia

Threw out Interpretation

Was very Literal

 

Term
Shah Wali Allah
Definition

1762

India

Called for Islamic purification and unification

Believed disunity was a weakness

Interested in translating the Quran,

to make it more accessible

Term
Sir Sayyid Ahmed Khan
Definition

d1898

India

Islamic Modernist

Stressed Islamic Education and Western Sciences

Believed the Quran should be read metaphorically,

not literally

Stressed ethics and good conduct

Term
Sayyid Qutb
Definition

d. 1966

Colorado

Put forth notion of Jihad for unislamic governments such as Western countries

Revolutionary Aspects

Term
Mawdudi
Definition

d. 1979

Pakistan

Founded Jamaate-e-Islami

Revivalist Islamic Party

Originally oppossed to nationalism

(agreed with shal wali allah)

but later became a Pakistan nationalist

 

Term
Ibn Taymiyya
Definition

d. 1328

Strict Reformist

Against Innovation

No borrowing from other religions

Term

Rabi'a

 

Definition

d. 801 CE

Iraq

 Female Sufi Saint

Refused to eat onion a bird dropped

Denounced both heaven and hell

 

 

 

 

Term
Hasan al Banna
Definition

d. 1949

Egyptian Social Political Reformer

Founded Muslim Brotherhood

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Ibn Taymiyya
Definition

d.1398

Scholar and Reformist

Against Innovation and borrowing

from other religions

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