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The end of the eighteenth century was a transformational period for the Muslim communities in the Russian Empire and their relationship with the tsarist state. One of the major figures to emerge out of this context was the reformer Abu Nasr Qursawi (1776-1812). A controversial religious scholar, he put forward a sweeping reform of the Islamic scholarly tradition that was influential among these communities into the twentieth century. Nathan Spannaus presents the first detailed analysis of Qursawi’s reformism, both in its contours and broad historical setting, addressing issues of modernity, secularity, tradition, and intellectual history.
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Hosszú leírás:
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.
I would highly recommend this book to scholars, researchers and postgraduate students working within the Islamic legal and theological tradition. Spannaus has presented Qursawi’s views in a scholarly manner that critically examines key terminologies that continue to be used today within usul al-fiqh and kalam.
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Tartalomjegyzék:
Acknowledgments
Preface
Transliteration, Dates, Ethnonyms
Map
Timeline of Volga-Ural History
Introduction
Chapter 2: An `Alim in the Russian Empire
Chapter 3: An Epistemological Critique
Chapter 4: Ijtihad and the Function of Legal Theory
Chapter 5: The Question of the Divine Attributes
Chapter 6: Post-classical Kalam
Chapter 7: Reform within the Scholarly Tradition
Chapter 8: Modernity
Chapter 9: The Transformation of Bulghar Islam
Conclusion
Bibliography
Notes
Index
