Re-forming the knot - ʿabdullāh al-ghumārī's iconoclastic sunnī neo-traditionalism
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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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GhumārīLate-SunnīTraditionalismModernityIjtihādTraditionReform
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Original Reference:
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Original Reference:
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How to Cite
Laher, Suheil Ismail. 2018. “Re-Forming the Knot - ʿabdullāh Al-ghumārī’s Iconoclastic Sunnī Neo-Traditionalism”. Journal of College of Sharia and Islamic Studies 36 (1). https://doi.org/10.29117/jcsis.2018.0207.
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