Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī
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The world is a game of chess; the loser loses and the winner wins.
— As quoted in Jamāḷ al-Dīn al-Afghāni: A Muslim intellectual (1984) by Anwar Moazzam, p. 3
Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī
Political activist and Islamic ideologist (1838–1897)
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Lived 1838–1897, aged 59
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A 19th-century Islamic ideologist who crossed borders rallying Muslims against Western empire — and ended his travels linked to the assassination of a shah he believed was selling out to Britain.
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Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī spent the late 1800s moving through the Muslim world with a single obsession: unity against the West. Born in 1838 or 1839, he cared less about theological splits than about forging a Pan-Islamic front, especially in India under British rule. He became one of the founders of Islamic Modernism, a school that sought to reconcile tradition with the pressures of the age. His impatience with accommodation had consequences. When Shah Naser-al-Din made what Afghani saw as too many concessions to foreign powers, Afghani's follower Mirza Reza Kermani carried out the assassinatio…
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