New Times,
New Thinking.

  1. Long reads
10 February 2010updated 24 Sep 2015 10:46am

Jamal al-Din al-Afghani

The prime mover in the Islamic renaissance.

By Ian K Smith

Jamal al-Din al-Afghani was the founder of Islamic revivalism, the movement to restore Muslim civilisation to its former glory. Al-Afghani was an activist who travelled around the Islamic and European worlds preaching political and religious reform, being courted, getting exiled, and generally creating controversy.

Content from our partners
More than a landlord: A future of opportunity
Towards an NHS fit for the future
How drones can revolutionise UK public services