Revival and Reform in Islam - The Legacy of Muhammad Al-Shawkani

Informationen zum Autor Bernard Haykel is Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and History in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at New York University. Klappentext A history of the transition from traditional Shiism to Sunni reformism in pre-modern Yemen. Zusammenfassung This book is an intellectual biography of Muhammad al-Shawkani! one of the founding fathers of Islamic reformism! and a history of the transition from traditional Shiism to Sunni reformism in pre-modern Yemen. The book demonstrates how Shawkani's ideas remain of central importance to modern Islamic thinking. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Charismatic authority: the Qasimi Imamate in the seventeenth century; 2. Becoming a dynasty: the Qasimimi Imamate in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; 3. The absolute interpreter and 'Renewer' of the thirteenth century H; 4. The triumph of Sunni traditionism and the re-ordering of Yemeni society; 5. Clashing with the Zaydis: the question of cursing the Prophet's Companions (sabb al-sahaba); 6. Riots in Sanaa: the response of the strict Hadawis; 7. Shawkani's legacy.

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• Authors: Bernard Haykel, Bernard (New York University) Haykel
• Assisted by: David Morgan (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.05.2003
• EAN: 9780521816281
• ISBN: 978-0-521-81628-1
• No. of pages: 284
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Islamic C
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous