Re-forming the knot - ʿabdullāh al-ghumārī's iconoclastic sunnī neo-traditionalism

This article studies the life and thought of  Abdullah al-Ghumari (d. 1413/1993), an accomplished, yet uncelebrated, Muslim scholar from Morocco. After a brief biographical sketch, I present an overview of his thought (including numerous nonconformist views he held) in the fields of theology, law an...

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Main Author: Suheil Ismail Laher
Format: Article
Language:Arabic
Published: Qatar University Press 2018-12-01
Series:مجلة كلية الشريعة والدراسات الإسلامية
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Online Access:https://journals.qu.edu.qa/index.php/sharia/article/view/310
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description This article studies the life and thought of  Abdullah al-Ghumari (d. 1413/1993), an accomplished, yet uncelebrated, Muslim scholar from Morocco. After a brief biographical sketch, I present an overview of his thought (including numerous nonconformist views he held) in the fields of theology, law and Sufism. I proceed to analyze his methodology and what it tells us about his interaction with modernity and the Islamic scholarly tradition. Finally, I draw some more general conclusions about Islam in modernity, in light of the views of contemporary French sociologist Hervieu-Leger. I infer that Ghumari was a nonconformist thinker who leveraged a broad understanding of tradition to remold or revive the tradition from within. The early-modern milieu may have contributed to and facilitated his attempts to restore dynamism to a religious scholarly tradition that had in some ways at least become static or stagnant.
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spelling doaj.art-9cd5eefab9bb4248b6d4bac7006f44112022-12-21T23:16:09ZaraQatar University Pressمجلة كلية الشريعة والدراسات الإسلامية2305-55452523-17152018-12-01361Re-forming the knot - ʿabdullāh al-ghumārī's iconoclastic sunnī neo-traditionalismSuheil Ismail LaherThis article studies the life and thought of  Abdullah al-Ghumari (d. 1413/1993), an accomplished, yet uncelebrated, Muslim scholar from Morocco. After a brief biographical sketch, I present an overview of his thought (including numerous nonconformist views he held) in the fields of theology, law and Sufism. I proceed to analyze his methodology and what it tells us about his interaction with modernity and the Islamic scholarly tradition. Finally, I draw some more general conclusions about Islam in modernity, in light of the views of contemporary French sociologist Hervieu-Leger. I infer that Ghumari was a nonconformist thinker who leveraged a broad understanding of tradition to remold or revive the tradition from within. The early-modern milieu may have contributed to and facilitated his attempts to restore dynamism to a religious scholarly tradition that had in some ways at least become static or stagnant.https://journals.qu.edu.qa/index.php/sharia/article/view/310GhumārīLate-SunnīTraditionalismModernityIjtihādTradition
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Re-forming the knot - ʿabdullāh al-ghumārī's iconoclastic sunnī neo-traditionalism
مجلة كلية الشريعة والدراسات الإسلامية
Ghumārī
Late-Sunnī
Traditionalism
Modernity
Ijtihād
Tradition
title Re-forming the knot - ʿabdullāh al-ghumārī's iconoclastic sunnī neo-traditionalism
title_full Re-forming the knot - ʿabdullāh al-ghumārī's iconoclastic sunnī neo-traditionalism
title_fullStr Re-forming the knot - ʿabdullāh al-ghumārī's iconoclastic sunnī neo-traditionalism
title_full_unstemmed Re-forming the knot - ʿabdullāh al-ghumārī's iconoclastic sunnī neo-traditionalism
title_short Re-forming the knot - ʿabdullāh al-ghumārī's iconoclastic sunnī neo-traditionalism
title_sort re forming the knot ʿabdullah al ghumari s iconoclastic sunni neo traditionalism
topic Ghumārī
Late-Sunnī
Traditionalism
Modernity
Ijtihād
Tradition
url https://journals.qu.edu.qa/index.php/sharia/article/view/310
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