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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 569 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the topics, 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.
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.
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.
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Crypto-AnarchismLibertarian35%
Philosopher, physician and judge from Córdoba, Averroes commented on Aristotle and held that philosophical reason and Quranic revelation do not contradict each other, influencing Christian scholasticism. He served the Almohad court and was exiled under pressure from theologians.
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A presidential republic under a dominant party, Tanzania has been governed by the CCM since independence, heir to Nyerere's ujamaa socialism, with a union of mainland and Zanzibar, gradual economic opening and growing repression of the opposition.
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Under Hugo Chávez, from 1999 to 2013, Venezuela lived '21st-century socialism', with a new constitution, oil-funded social programs, nationalizations, currency and price controls, deep polarization, confrontation with the United States and power concentrated in the president.
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