ʿAbduh, for instance, wished to do away with the Sunnī legal schools and was skeptical of much of the ḥadīth corpus. Shortly after moving to Cairo in 1315/1898, Riḍā sought and obtained ʿAbduh’s assistance in establishing his journal, al-Manār. He saw himself as a steward of ʿAbduh’s intellectual project. Yet Riḍā was always more conservative in his approach to the Islamic textual tradition than his mentor and, unlike him, was deeply sympathetic to the teachings of Ibn Taymiyya and Ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb.
