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1 online resource (222 pages) |
| Contents |
Al-Bājūrī's life and scholarship -- al-Bājūrī's view of religion and method in the Egyptian milieu -- Al-Bājūrī in dialogue with his archetypal predecessors -- al-Bājūrī's legal, theological, and mystical thought -- Legacy and conclusion |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Bājūrī, Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad, 1783 or 1784-1860.
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Bājūrī, Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad, 1783 or 1784-1860 |
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Muslim scholars -- Egypt -- Biography
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RELIGION -- Islam -- General.
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Muslim scholars
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RELIGION / Islam / General
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Egypt
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| ISBN |
9781438453729 |
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1438453728 |
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143845371X |
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9781438453712 |
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