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Preserving Islamic Tradition - Abu Nasr Qursawi and the Beginnings of Modern Reformism (Hardcover)
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Preserving Islamic Tradition - Abu Nasr Qursawi and the Beginnings of Modern Reformism (Hardcover)
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The end of the eighteenth century was a transformational period for
the Muslim communities of the Russian Empire and their relationship
with the tsarist state. Though they had been under Russian rule
since the sixteenth century, it was at this time that they were
incorporated into the imperial bureaucracy, most significantly
through the founding of an official hierarchy for the Islamic
religious scholars in 1788. The introduction of a state-backed
structure for Muslim religious institutions altered Islamic
religious authority and, in turn, religious discourse. One of the
major figures to emerge from this new context was Abu Nasr Qursawi
(1776-1812). A controversial figure who was condemned for heresy in
Bukhara in 1808, Qursawi put forward a sweeping reform of the
Islamic scholarly tradition. Focusing on taqlid, the principle of
conformity to established doctrine, Qursawi argued that its overuse
had weakened scholarship in the areas of Islamic law (fiqh) and
theology (kalam) and undermined scholars' ability to serve as
religious guides. In Preserving Islamic Tradition, Nathan Spannaus
presents the first detailed analysis of Qursawi's reformist
project, both in its contours and broad historical setting.
Spannaus shows how state control of Muslim institutions impacted
religious discourse, but also how it altered the entire religious
environment into the twentieth century. Addressing issues of
modernity, secularity, tradition, and intellectual history,
Preserving Islamic Tradition demonstrates how the interaction with
a European imperial state transformed the Islamic tradition, both
directly and indirectly, and elicited new forms of religious
thought and discourse.
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