Cairo and the printing press as the modes in the dissemination of Muhammad ‘Abduh’s reformism to colonial Malaya

• Main Author: Zakariya, Hafiz
• Other Authors: Chen , Dan
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: IACSIT Press 2011
• Subjects: BP1 Islam; BP170.85 Da'wah. Mission of Islam. Summons, invitation, etc.
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/10927/1/HZakariya_CairoRoles.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/10927/; http://www.ipedr.com/vol17/22-CHHSS%202011-H10001.pdf

The second half of the 19th to the early 20th century witnessed the emergence of Islamic reformism as exemplified by Muhammad ‘Abduh (d.1905) and Muhammad Rashid Rida (d. 1935). These reformists urged the umma to revitalize their conditions –eliminate intellectual stagnation; to reform their moralit...