Mosaad Islam Before Modernity

Ahmad alDardir and the Preservation of Traditional Knowledge
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-4632-4381-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 14, 370 Seiten

Reihe: The Modern Muslim World

This book examines the role of tradition and discursive knowledge transmission on the formation of the ‘ulama’, the learned scholarly class in Islam, and their approach to the articulation of the Islamic disciplines. The basis of this examination is the twelfth/eighteenth century scholar, Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Dardir, an Egyptian Azhari who wrote highly influential treatises in the disciplines of creedal theology, Maliki jurisprudence, and tasawwuf (Sufism). He also occupied a prominent role in the urban life of Cairo, and is accredited with several incidents of intercession with the rulers on behalf of the Cairo populace. This book argues that a useful framework for evaluating the intellectual contributions of post-classical scholars such as al-Dardir involves the concept of an Islamic discursive tradition, where al-Dardir’s specific contributions were aimed towards preserving, upholding, and maintaining the Islamic tradition, including the intellectual “sub-traditions” that came to define it.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mosaad, Walead

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