Muhammad Abduh Quotes
The state does not possess trade or industry. Its wealth is the wealth of the people and the people’s wealth is not possible without the spread of these sciences amongst them so that they may know the ways for acquiring wealth.
Muhammad Abduh, 1849-1905, Egyptian jurist, historian, political scientist, religious scholar and liberal reformer, Mufti of the Egyptian Realm, Editor and Chief of al-Waqāʾiʿ al-Miṣriyya (The Eyptian State Newspaper), Known as “The founder of Islamic Modernism”
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Muḥammad 'Abduh (also spelled Mohammed Abduh, Arabic: محمد عبده) was an Egyptian Islamic scholar, jurist, theologian, mujaddid, Freemason, and writer. He also wrote, among other things, "Treatise on the Oneness of God", and a commentary on the Quran. He briefly published, alongside Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī, the Pan-Islamist anti-colonial journal Al-Urwah al-Wuthqa.