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Grand Mufti of Egypt and father of Islamic modernism, Abduh argued for reinterpreting Islam through reason (ijtihad), reformed teaching at Al-Azhar and the religious courts, and opposed both clerical stagnation and British rule.
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Muhammad Abduh leans further toward religious than 92% of the 416 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Religion is where Muhammad Abduh stands furthest from the rest.
On Immigration, Muhammad Abduh sits practically at the catalog median.
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Conservative tradition that accepts social reforms and protection for the poorest to preserve national cohesion, seeing elites as responsible for the people's welfare and for harmony between classes.
Current reconciling Islam with electoral democracy through conservative religious parties that run in elections and support a market economy and Muslim values in public life, like Turkey's early AKP and Tunisia's Ennahda.
Political movement advocating a state governed by sharia and Islamic identity, born with Hassan al-Banna's and Sayyid Qutb's Muslim Brotherhood, combining mass activism, religious social welfare and rejection of Western secularism.
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Crypto-AnarchismLibertarian39%
First Ashkenazi chief rabbi of Mandatory Palestine, Kook was the leading theologian of religious Zionism, saw secular pioneers as instruments of the divine plan and holiness in the Land of Israel, and founded the Mercaz HaRav yeshiva.
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An elective federal monarchy in Southeast Asia, Malaysia combines democracy, a multiethnic society, Islam as the official religion, and a state-directed market economy, with affirmative action policies for Malays.
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The only long-lasting empire in the Americas, imperial Brazil was a parliamentary monarchy under Pedro I and Pedro II, marked by political stability, a slave-based agrarian economy, and strong state centralization.
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