Muhammad ʻAbduh
historical figure · 2 works · 5 mentions · 10 anchored passages · author page · cited 8 times in 2 works
الاستاذ الامام الشيخ محمد عبده · محمد عبده · Muḥammad ʻAbduh · Muḥammad ʻAbduh ibn ʻAbduh ibn Ḥasan Khayr Allāh · Muḥammad ʻAbduh son of ʻAbduh son of Ḥasan Khayr Allāh · The Master Imām, Shaykh Muḥammad ʻAbduh · The Master and Imām, Shaykh Muḥammad ʻAbduh · our Shaykh, the author · the Master, the Imām, Shaykh Muḥammad ʻAbduh · الفقير الى ربه
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Kitāb madhāhib al-Aʻrāb wa-falāsifat al-Islām fī al-jinn
The Egyptian reformer, named last and with the honorifics of master and imām among the authorities whose views on the jinn the second aim will report.
(11) the Master, the Imām, Shaykh Muḥammad ʻAbduh.
The angels and the satans, then, are spirits that join themselves to the spirits of men.
This thing, then, which has been deposited in our souls and which we name a power and a thought — while in reality it is a meaning whose essence is not grasped and a spirit whose reality is not fathomed — it is not far-fetched that God, exalted be He, should name it an angel and name its causes angels, or whatever names He wills;
Risālat al-Wāridāt
Muḥammad ʻAbduh, the nineteenth-century Egyptian thinker who writes this treatise: he presents himself as reared in the province of Egypt, in the district of al-Buḥayrah in the village of Maḥallat Naṣr, a servant of wisdom who has deliberately abandoned grammar and kalām for the open field of the real sciences, and who received these teachings from al-Afghānī in 1290.
[scan 8] «1» I know that he, may God Most High have mercy upon him, retracted many of these theories which he set down in this treatise, their falsity having become clear to him — among them everything built upon analogising knowledge of God Most High to knowledge of His creation, and His ways (*sunan*) to a part thereof.
Muḥammad ʻAbduh, son of ʻAbduh, son of Ḥasan Khayr Allāh, says — he who was reared in the province of Miṣr, in the district of al-Buḥayrah, in a village called Maḥallat Naṣr;
and this is a self-evident judgement, to which we have now called your attention.