Rashid Rida

Rashid Rida

Muḥammad Rashīd ibn ʿAlī Riḍā ibn Muḥammad Shams al-Dīn ibn Muḥammad Bahāʾ al-Dīn ibn Munlā ʿAlī Khalīfa (23 September 1865 or 18 October 1865 – 22 August 1935 CE/ 1282 - 1354 AH), widely known as Sayyid Rashid Rida (Arabic: سيد رشيد رضا, romanized: Sayyid Rashīd Riḍā) was a prominent Sunni Islamic scholar, reformer, theologian and revivalist. As an eminent Salafi scholar who called for the revival of Hadith sciences and a theoretician of Islamic State in the modern-age; Rida condemned the rising currents of secularism and nationalism across the Islamic World following the Abolition of the Ottoman sultanate, and called for a global Islamic Renaissance program to re-establish an Islamic Caliphate.Rashid Rida is considered by many as one of the most influential scholars and jurists of his generation and was initially influenced by the movement for Islamic Modernism founded in Egypt by Muhammad Abduh. Eventually, Rida became a resolute proponent of the works of Ibn Taymiyyah, Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab, etc. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rashid Rida has received more than 355,828 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Rashid Rida is the 790th most popular religious figure (down from 774th in 2019), the 19th most popular biography from Lebanon (down from 18th in 2019) and the 7th 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.