Despite all this, Rida was the most important modern Sunni scholar of the Quran in influencing the growth of modern Shiite exegesis. As the founder and editor of the reformist journal "Al-Manar", Rida’s prolific Quranic commentary("Tafseer") is widely regarded by both Sunni and Shiite scholars as groundbreaking and a herald of a new era of socio-political exegesis of the Quran. As traditional Shiism came into contact with certain reformist tendencies in the Sunni world, including the salafist call to “return to the Quran", its orthodox reluctance to engage in Qur'anic exegesis was highly challenged in the modern World. Rida’s commentary and approach were instrumental in inducing a similar tendency within Shiism.