Timelines of Islam Visionaries

By mdelgreco14

  • Rifah'a al-Tahtawi is born in Egypt

  • Rifa'ah al-Tahtawi goes with students to Paris for military training and education

  • Rifah'a al-Tahtawi returns to Egypt and becomes the leader of the School of Languages in Cairo

  • Rifah'a al-Tahtawi is placed in charge of the school's translation bureau and translates many documents

  • Rifah'a al-Tahtawi is sent to Sudan to teach

  • Rifah'a al-Tahtawi is sent back to Cairo to continue his studies

  • Mehmet Ziya Gokalp is born in Anatolia

  • Muhammed Iqbal is born in Pakistan

  • Rifa'ah al-Tahtawi dies

  • Ali Abdel Raziq is born

  • Mehmet Ziya Gokalp arrives in Istanbul and learns of the ideas of the Committee of Union and Progress

  • Abu al-A'la al-Mawdudi is born in India

  • Sayyid Qutb is born in Egypt

  • The Young Turk Revolution begins, and Mehmet Ziya Gokalp begins to identify with these political views

  • Mehmet Ziya Gokalp becomes a professor of sociology in Istanbul

  • Muhammed Iqbal publishes "Secrets of the Self"

  • Ali Abdel Raziq is made a qadi in Mansoura

  • Muhammed Iqbal publishes "The Mysteries of Selflessness"

  • Mehmet Ziya Gokalp is exiled to Malta for 2 years

  • Mehmet Ziya Gokalp's exile ends and he begins his part of the intellectual basis of Mustapha Kemal's regime

  • Muhammed Iqbal publishes "Message of the East"

  • Mehmet Ziya Gokalp dies

  • Ali Abdel Raziq is stripped from office

  • Ali Abdel Raziq publishes "Islam and the Foundations of Governance"

  • Abu al-A'la al-Mawdudi begins publishing his political ideas in a journal

  • Muhammed Iqbal publishes "The Song of Eternity"

  • Abu al-A'la al-Mawdudi begins feuding with Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind for its support of certain political ideas

  • Muhammed Iqbal dies

  • Ali Abdel Raziq is given his office position back

  • Abu al-A'la al-Mawdudi establishes Jamaʿat-i Islami for reform

  • Ali Abdel Raziq publishes "Consensus and Islamic Law"

  • Abu al-A'la al-Mawdudi is imprisoned for the first time for opposition to the Pakistani government

  • Sayyid Qutb leaves from studying in the US and became wary of the corruption of American secularism

  • Sayyid Qutb is imprisoned under charges of sedition, which start his most productive years

  • Sayyid Qutb publishes "Signposts in the Road" explaining his ideas of the corruption of Islamic society and became a symbol of militancy of modern Sunni militancy

  • Sayyid Qutb is released from prison, then soon re-arrested

  • Sayyid Qutb's book "Milestones" is published

  • Sayyid Qutb is executed for treason

  • Ali Abdel Raziq dies

  • Abu al-A'la al-Mawdudi publishes the Tafhim-ul-Quran

  • Abu al-A'la al-Mawdudi dies