Casting Aside the Clutches of Conjecture: the Striving for Religious Certainty at Aligarh
Abstract Why did the famous North Indian modernist and founder of the Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College in Aligarh, Sayyid Aḥmad Khān (d. 1315/1898), lash out against emulation (taqlīd) in Islamic law (fiqh)? The usual explanation is that he wanted to shift religious authority away from the religiou...
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| Language: | English |
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Brill
2020
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Islamic law and society
Year: 2020, Volume: 27, Issue: 4, Pages: 386-410 |
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Muḥsin al-Mulk
B Taqlid B Shiblī Nuʿmānī B Aligarh B Certainty B Sayyid Aḥmad Khān B Islamic Modernism |
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