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Did you know?: Sayed Jamaluddin Afghani

Al-Afghani is often described as one of the most prominent Islamic political leaders and philosophers of the nineteenth century. He was concerned with the subjection of the Muslim world by Western colonial powers, and he made the liberation, independence and unity of the Islamic world one of the major aims of his life. He provided a theoretical explanation for the relative decline of the Islamic world, and a philosophical theory of history which sought to establish a form of modernism appropriate to Islam.

In 1838 of a distinguished family at the home of a famous Kunari Sayed of Afghanistan (about 180 miles from Kabul) named Sayed Safdar, a boy was born and named Jamaluddin. It was this child that over half a century carried his one man campaign in the name of all the Muslims and oppressed people of Asia, against the colonial powers of Europe.

In fact during the later part of the 19 th century Jamaluddin was the only light and ray of hope. The Muslim worlds were living under colonial suppression, internal discord and poverty, and they, badly were, in need of a leader such as Jamaluddin. No one can deny reading the history of that period, that Afghani was one of the most outstanding figures and redeemers of the East. With all the qualification that he possessed, he was a great political and unique intellectual of his time. The great French philosopher Renan says about Afghani: (Few people have produced on me a more vivid impression; it is a large measure the conversation that I had with him that decided me to chose as a subject for my lecture at the Sorbonne, the relations between the “scientific spirit and Islam……” The liberty of his thought, his noble and loyal character, made me believe, while I was talking with him, that I had before me, restored ..→

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