RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Rashid Rida

1865 - 1935

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Muhammad Rashid Rida (Arabic: محمد رشيد رضا, romanized: Muḥammad Rashīd Riḍā; 1865 – 22 August 1935) was an Islamic scholar, reformer, theologian and revivalist. An early Salafist, Rida called for the revival of hadith studies and, as a theoretician of an Islamic state, condemned the rising currents of secularism and nationalism across the Islamic world following the abolition of the Ottoman sultanate. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rashid Rida has received more than 513,170 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Rashid Rida is the 855th most popular religious figure (down from 812th in 2019), the 23rd most popular biography from Lebanon (down from 19th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Lebanese Religious Figure.

Rashid Rida was an Islamic scholar who helped to found the Salafi movement. He is most famous for his book "The Justification of Jihad" which he wrote in 1909.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Rashid Rida ranks 855 out of 3,187Before him are Methodios I of Constantinople, Ravi Shankar, Abd Manaf ibn Qusai, Agabus, Al-Juwayni, and Mesud II. After him are Alessandro Valignano, Jean-Louis Tauran, Antipope John XVI, Louise de Marillac, Saturnin, and Saint Emeric of Hungary.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1865, Rashid Rida ranks 31Before him are Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Jacques Hadamard, Gérard Encausse, Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg, Valentin Serov, and Gabriel Narutowicz. After him are Mikao Usui, John Mott, L'Inconnue de la Seine, Charles G. Dawes, Duan Qirui, and Prince Eugen, Duke of Närke. Among people deceased in 1935, Rashid Rida ranks 39Before him are Johan Halvorsen, Panait Istrati, John Macleod, Aron Nimzowitsch, Anna Ancher, and Paul Bourget. After him are Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom, Magnus Hirschfeld, Princess Anastasia of Montenegro, Ma Barker, Kurt Tucholsky, and Abraham Isaac Kook.

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In Lebanon

Among people born in Lebanon, Rashid Rida ranks 23 out of 145Before him are Amin Maalouf (1949), Eusebius of Nicomedia (280), Émile Lahoud (1936), Sheikh Adi ibn Musafir (1073), Amine Gemayel (1942), and Pierre Gemayel (1905). After him are Fouad Siniora (1943), Hiram I (-1000), Antonella Lualdi (1931), Alfonso Jordan (1103), Michel Suleiman (1948), and Antipater of Sidon (-200).

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Lebanon

Among religious figures born in Lebanon, Rashid Rida ranks 6Before him are Charbel Makhlouf (1828), Christina of Bolsena (210), Pope Constantine (664), Eusebius of Nicomedia (280), and Sheikh Adi ibn Musafir (1073). After him are Frumentius (400), Pope Sisinnius (650), Pamphilus of Caesarea (240), Abd al-Rahman al-Awza'i (707), Nimatullah Kassab (1808), and Bechara Boutros al-Rahi (1940).