The archetypal Sunnī scholar : law, theology, and mysticism in the synthesis of al-Bājūrī / Aaron Spevack.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spevack, Aaron, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Muslim scholars--Egypt--Biography.

Muslim scholars.

Bājūrī, Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad, 1783 or 1784-1860.

Bājūrī, Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (222 p.)

Place of Publication:

Albany, New York : SUNY Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is a rare study of a late premodern Islamic thinker, Ibrahim al- Bājūrī, a nineteenth-century scholar and rector of Cairo's al-Azhar University. Aaron Spevack explores al- Bājūrī's legal, theological, and mystical thought, highlighting its originality and vibrancy in relation to the millennium of scholarship that preceded and informed it, and also detailing its continuing legacy. The book makes a case for the normativity of the Gabrielian Paradigm, the study of law, rational theology, and Sufism, in the person of al- Bājūrī. Soon after his death in 1860, this typical pattern of scholarship would face significant challenges from modernists, reformers, and fundamentalists. Spevack challenges beliefs that rational theology, syllogistic logic, and Sufism were not part of the predominant conception of orthodox scholarship and shows this scholarly archetype has not disappeared as an ideal. In addition, the book contests prevailing beliefs in academic and Muslim circles about intellectual decline from the thirteenth through nineteenth centuries.

Contents:

""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""1: Al-Bajuri's Life and Scholarship""; ""Al-Bajuri's Teachers and Students""; ""A Traditional Shaykh al-Azhar in an Era of Attempted Reform ""; ""Al-Bajuri's Character""; ""Al-Bajuris Works""; ""Chronological List of al-Bajuri's Completed Works ""; ""Unfinished Works""; ""Al-Bajuri's Commentaries and Their Predecessors""; ""Al-Bajuri's Literary Sources and the Commentary Tradition""; ""2: Al-Bajuri's View of Religion and Method in the Egyptian Milieu""; ""The Archetype and Method""

""Authority and Authenticity: Ijaza, Idhn, Isnad, and Ijtihad""""The Harmony of Reason and Revelation""; ""Sharia Compliant Spirituality""; ""The Gabrielian Paradigm: Al-BAajuri's View of the Three Dimensions of Islam""; ""Islam: Law""; ""Iman: Belief""; ""Ihsan: Spiritual Excellence""; ""The Ijma-Ikhtilaf Spectrum""; ""The Egyptian Milieu""; ""The Shafiá'i School in Egypt""; ""Ash'ári Thought and the Egyptian Madrasas""; ""Sufism in Egypt""; ""3: Al-Bajuri in Dialogue with His Archetypal Predecessors""; ""Al-Bajuri 's Theological Predecessors""

""Fakhr al-Din al-RAazi""""Al-Taftazni«""; ""Al-Laqani""; ""Muhámmad b. Yusuf al-Sanusi""; ""Al-Bajuri's Predecessors in Law""; ""The Minhaj Group: Al-Nawawi and al-Rafi i""; ""Ibn Hajar al-Haytami and Shams al-Din al-Ramli""; ""The Tahrir Group""; ""Zakariyya al-Ansari""; ""The Abu Shuja Group""; ""The Tanbih Group""; ""Abu Ishaq al-Shirazi""; ""Later Scholars""; ""Al-Bajuri s Sufi Predecessors""; ""Al-Sha'rani""; ""Ibn Taymiyya""; ""The Independent Jurist-Theologian-Sufis and Their Affiliations""; ""Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti.""

""4: Al-Bajuri's Legal, Theological, and Mystical Thought""""Al-Bajuri on Law: Ijtihad and Taqlid""; ""Ijtihad""; ""Taqlid""; ""Following Another Madhhab""; ""Al-Bajuri on Sufism: Its Goals, Methods, and Explanations or Exclamations""; ""Definition and Goals of Sufism""; ""The Ten Points of Departure for the Science of Sufism (al-mabadil-áshara)""; ""Al-BÄ?jÅ«rÄ« on the Methods of Sufism""; ""Bidá¿?a (Innovation)""; ""Explanations of the Unexplainable: The Problematic Sayings of the Sufis""; ""Al-Bajuri on the Rational Sciences""

""Al-Bajuri on Ta wid and Zahir, """"The Permissibility of Mantiq""; ""Al-Bajuri on Kalam""; ""Opponents to Al-Bajuri's Kalam""; ""5: Legacy and Conclusion""; ""Al-Bajuri's Legacy""; ""Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781438453729

1438453728

OCLC:

891382225