Preserving Islamic tradition : Abū Naṣr Qūrsāwī and the beginnings of modern reformism / Nathan Spannaus
- Author:
- Spannaus, Nathan
- Published:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 327 pages ; 25 cm
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction--Historiography of Reform and Tradition -- Jadidism and Historiography -- Eighteenth-Century Reformism -- Tradition and Institutions -- The Current Study -- 2.An cMim in the Russian Empire -- Sharfa and the `Ulamd' -- Tsarist Rule, Persecution, and Tolerance -- Sanction and Scholarship -- Bukhara -- The Spiritual Assembly -- Conflicts in Bulghar Islam -- 3.An Epistemological Critique -- Postclassical Scholarship -- Reforming the Scholarly Tradition -- 4.Ijtihad and the Function of Legal Theory -- Qursawf's Conception of Ijtihad -- The Prevalence of Taqlld -- The Social Function of Ijtihad -- 5.The Question of the Divine Attributes -- Qursawfs Critique -- Divine Transcendence -- Orthodoxy and Condemnation -- 6.Postclassical Kalam -- Wujudi Influence -- Approaching Sirhindl -- Qursawi as Mutakallim -- 7.Reform Within the Scholarly Tradition -- Eighteenth-Century Reformism -- A Response to Tsarist Rule -- 8.Modernity -- Disembedding and Individualism -- Secularity -- Modern Reformism -- 9.The Transformation of the Religious Environment -- Reforming Muslim Education -- Printing -- The Fragmentation of Authority -- Jadidism and the Post-1905 Religious Environment -- 10.Conclusion--Separating Qursawl and Jadidism.
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- ISBN:
- 9780190251789 (hbk.)
0190251786 - Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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