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| | Muhammad Abduh, Ted Thornton, NMH, Northfield Mount Hermon |
 | | Muhammad Abduh,1849-1905, was an Egyptian religious reformer who sought to modernize Islam and bring it into line with rational principles. |
 | | Abduh had been exiled from Egypt in 1882 (his forced departure followed Afghani's in 1879) for participating in the Urabi uprising against the British. |
 | | About the turn of the twentieth century, Abduh and Jamal al-Din al-Afghani founded the Salafiyyah movement (from the phrase, salaf as-salihiin, 'the pious predecessors' -- see), a reform movement which spread rapidly throughout the Islamic world. |
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