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The archetypal Sunnī scholar : law, theology, and mysticism in the synthesis of al-Bājūrī / Aaron Spevack.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Albany, New York : SUNY Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (222 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781438453729
  • 1438453728
  • 143845371X
  • 9781438453712
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Archetypal Sunnī scholar : law, theology, and mysticism in the synthesis of al-Bājūrī.DDC classification:
  • 297.8/1092 23
LOC classification:
  • BP80.B23515 .S74 2014eb
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  • online - EBSCO
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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.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)844853

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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.

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.