Islam before modernity : Ahmad AlDardir and the preservation of traditional knowledge / Walead Mohammed Mosaad.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mosaad, Walead Mohammed, author.

Series:

Modern Muslim world ; Volume 14.

The Modern Muslim World, 2690-2249 ; Volume 14

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islam--Doctrines.

Islam.

Islam--Doctrines--18th century.

Sufism--Doctrines.

Sufism.

Dardīr, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, 1715-1786.

Dardīr, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (370 pages)

Place of Publication:

Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press, LLC, [2022]

Summary:

This book examines the role of tradition and discursive knowledge transmission on the formation of the ‘ulamā’, 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, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Dardīr, an Egyptian Azharī who wrote highly influential treatises in the disciplines of creedal theology, Mālikī jurisprudence, and taṣawwuf (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-Dardīr involves the concept of an Islamic discursive tradition, where al-Dardīr’s specific contributions were aimed towards preserving, upholding, and maintaining the Islamic tradition, including the intellectual “sub-traditions” that came to define it.

Contents:

Frontmatter

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. Al-Dardīr and the Foundations of the Islamic Educational Paradigm

Chapter 3. Al-Dardīr’s Sufi-Theology: Synthesis of Kalām and Taṣawwuf Epistemologies

Chapter 4. Weighted synthesis (tarjīḥ) and al-Dardīr’s Methodology Regarding the Fiqh Tradition

Chapter 5. Al-Dardīr: ‘Ālim, Sufi, and Intercessor for the Masses

Conclusions

Appendix. Translation of al-Dardīr’s Minor Creed

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Mosaad, Walead Islam Before Modernity

ISBN:

9781463243814

OCLC:

1337946238