Shāh Walī Allāh of Delhi's Hujjat Allāh Al-bāligha

Shāh Walī Allāh of Delhi's Hujjat Allāh Al-bāligha
Author: Walī Allāh al-Dihlawī
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 558
Release: 1996
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9789004102989

This important and comprehensive work of 18th-century Islamic religious thought written in Arabic by a pre-eminent South Asian scholar provides an extensive and detailed picture of Muslim theology and interpretive strategies on the eve of the modern period.

Islam in Black America

Islam in Black America
Author: Edward E. Curtis IV
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 187
Release: 2012-02-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0791488594

Many of the most prominent figures in African-American Islam have been dismissed as Muslim heretics and cultists. Focusing on the works of five of these notable figures—Edward W. Blyden, Noble Drew Ali, Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm X, and Wallace D. Muhammad—author Edward E. Curtis IV examines the origin and development of modern African-American Islamic thought. Curtis notes that intellectual tensions in African-American Islam parallel those of Islam throughout its history—most notably, whether Islam is a religion for a particular group of people or whether it is a religion for all people. In the African-American context, such tensions reflect the struggle for black liberation and the continuing reconstruction of black identity. Ultimately, Curtis argues, the interplay of particular and universal interpretations of the faith can allow African-American Islam a vision that embraces both a specific group of people and all people.

Shāh Walī Allāh's Treatises on Islamic Law

Shāh Walī Allāh's Treatises on Islamic Law
Author: Marcia K. Hermansen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 151
Release: 2011
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781891785467

Shah Wali Allah’s two important treatises on juristic diversity and the nature of binding and independent authority in Islamic law, Al-In'af fi Bayan Sabab al-Ikhtilaf and 'Iqd al-Jid fi A'kam al-Ijtihad wa-l Taqlid, are here translated from the original Arabic with critical introductions and annotations to the author's sources and the legal issues used to illustrate his arguments. Addressing relevant and crucial contemporary issues, these new scholarly translations of the important treatises provide access to important debates on authority and reform in Islamic legal reasoning. The question of ijtihad (independent critical reasoning) versus taqlid (adherence to the classical schools and rulings of Islamic law) continues to inform contemporary discussions of how Muslims—as individuals and in their institutions and practice—can maintain fidelity and authenticity while addressing the compelling issues of the present age.

In the Company of the Quran - an Explanation of Sūrah Al-Kahf

In the Company of the Quran - an Explanation of Sūrah Al-Kahf
Author: Furhan Zubairi
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2021-01-08
Genre:
ISBN:

There are a few narrations from the Prophet ﷺ that encourage Muslims to recite Sūrah al-Kahf on a weekly basis. That is why it is a common practice across the world to recite Sūrah al-Kahf on Fridays. This is a beautiful practice that helps strengthen one's relationship with the Quran and builds a culture of recitation. However, more important than simply reciting the Sūrah as a ritual is connecting with it emotionally, intellectually, spiritually, and trying our best to understand its message and apply its guidance into our daily lives. This work explores the meanings, lessons, reminders, benefits, morals, and guidance of Sūrah al-Kahf based on classical and contemporary sources.

Shah Waliullah (1703 - 1762)

Shah Waliullah (1703 - 1762)
Author: Muḥammad Ikrām Cug̲h̲tāʼī
Publisher:
Total Pages: 752
Release: 2005
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Waliullah, 1702 or 3-1763, leader of Ahl-i Hadith movement in India.

The Expansion of Prophetic Experience

The Expansion of Prophetic Experience
Author: Abdulkarim Soroush
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 405
Release: 2008-11-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9047424360

Abdulkarim Soroush is known primarily for his epistemological/hermeneutical theory, the “Contraction and Expansion of Religious Knowledge,” and its application to Islamic political theory and religious pluralism. While his Reason, Freedom and Democracy in Islam applies that theory to plurality and the historicity of understanding and interpretation of religion, this book captures some of his original theories about religion itself. The Expansion of Prophetic Experience treats the historicity of the Prophet Muhammad’s revelatory experience, including human and contextual influences on the genesis of the sacred Text. It presents substantial aspects of Soroush’s Neo-Rationalist hermeneutical project for an Islamic reformed theology and ethics, systematically leading Islamic reformation beyond conventional projects of piecemeal adjustments to the Shariʿah or selective re-interpretations of the Qurʾān.

Emotions and Temporalities

Emotions and Temporalities
Author: Margrit Pernau
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 135
Release: 2021-10-14
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1108911080

This Element brings together the history of emotions and temporalities, offering a new perspective on both. Time was often imagined as a movement from the past to the future: the past is gone and the future not yet here. Only present-day subjects could establish relations to other times, recovering history as well as imagining and anticipating the future. In a movement paralleling the emphasis on the porous self, constituted by emotions situated not inside but between subjects, this Element argues for a porous present, which is open to the intervention of ghosts coming from the past and from the future. What needs investigating is the flow between times as much as the creation of boundaries between them, which first banishes the ghosts and then denies their existence. Emotions are the most important way through which subjects situate and understand themselves in time.

Sufi Heirs of the Prophet

Sufi Heirs of the Prophet
Author: Arthur F. Buehler
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2022-10-18
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1643364073

An examination of the sources and evolution of personal authority in one Islamic society Sufi Heirs of the Prophet explores the multifaceted development of personal authority in Islamic societies by tracing the transformation of one mystical sufi lineage in colonial India, the Naqshbandiyya. Arthur F. Buehler isolates four sources of personal authority evident in the practices of the Naqshbandiyya—lineage, spiritual traveling, status as a Prophetic exemplar, and the transmission of religious knowledge—to demonstrate how Muslim religious leaders have exercised charismatic leadership through their association with the most compelling of personal Islamic symbols, the Prophet Muhammad. Buehler clarifies the institutional structure of sufism, analyzes overlapping configurations of personal sufi authority, and details how and why revivalist Indian Naqshbandis abandoned spiritual practices that had sustained their predecessors for more than five centuries. He looks specifically at the role of Jama'at 'Ali Shah (d. 1951) to explain current Naqshbandi practices.