The Caliphate or Supreme Imamate

Muhammad Rashid Rida, Simon A Wood

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Yale University Press
17 December 2024

General & world history; Religion & politics; History of religion; Islam; Politics & government

Series: World Thought in Translation

A translation of Muhammad Rashid Rida's best-known work, which examines the compatibility of Islamic political and legal tradition with modern thought

Muhammad Rashid Rida (1865–1935) was a prominent Muslim intellectual and reformer. Born in a village near Tripoli in present-day Lebanon, he was renowned for his founding of Al-Manar, an independent and successful Islamic magazine in which he published The Caliphate or Supreme Imamate as a series beginning in 1922. The work showcased Rida's faith in the Islamic tradition as the origin of notions such as self-determination and popular sovereignty, as well as his opposition to Western politics. A realist, he nevertheless argued that a revived Caliphate was viable and held the keys to Muslim empowerment and universal salvation.

This skillful translation by Simon A. Wood will make The Caliphate or Supreme Imamate accessible for the first time to English-speaking scholars and students of political theory and the modern Middle East.

By: Muhammad Rashid Rida
Translated by: Simon A Wood
Imprint: Yale University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9780300187298
ISBN 10: 0300187297
Series: World Thought in Translation
Pages: 284
Publication Date: 17 December 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Muhammad Rashid Rida (1865–1935) was a prominent Sunni Muslim scholar, publisher, and reformer. His journal, Al-Manar (The Beacon/The Lighthouse), circulated across the Muslim world. Simon A. Wood is associate professor of religious studies at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

Reviews for The Caliphate or Supreme Imamate

“A century ago, in a moment of postwar pessimism, Rashid Rida published a confounding political treatise affirming his aspirations for the rise of Arab-Muslim power. Simon A. Wood’s long-awaited translation elucidates this crucial text, explaining how it fell between Wilsonianism and Wahhabism and enriching our understanding of Islamic politics and Arab nationalism between the world wars.”—Leor Halevi, author of Modern Things on Trial: Islam’s Global and Material Reformation in the Age of Rida, 1865-1935