Simon Wood and Abla Hasan had a conversation about his book Rashid Rida: The Caliphate or Supreme Imamate, published by Yale University Press, at Francie and Finch Bookshop on Oct. 8.
Wood's book is a translation of Muhammad Rashid Rida's The Caliphate or Supreme Imamate, which examines the compatibility of Islamic political and legal tradition with modern thought.
Rida (1865–1935) was a prominent Muslim intellectual and reformer 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 concepts such as self-determination and popular sovereignty, as well as his opposition to Western politics.
The event was hosted by the Institute for Ethnic Studies and the Departments of Classics and Religious Studies and Modern Languages and Literatures.
