RT Article
T1 Beyond the Taqlīd/Ijtihād Dichotomy: Daghestani Legal Thought under Russian Rule
JF Islamic law and society
VO 24
IS 1/2
SP 142
OP 169
A1 Gould, Rebecca
A1 Shikhaliev, Shamil
LA English
PB Brill
YR 2017
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/182063874X
AB As one of the first scholarly studies of Jirāb al-Mamnūn, a collection of letters by the Daghestani Shāfiʿī scholar Ḥasan al-Alqadārī (1834–1910), this article challenges the ijtihād/taqlīd dichotomy within Islamic legal thought and argues for a more comprehensive understanding of the dialectic between reason and authority. Along the way, we examine the influence of al-Alqadārī’s taqlīd-based methodology on his attitudes toward confessional differences within and outside Islam. The article contributes to current debates on the role of reason and authority in the writings of Muslim scholars living under colonial rule.
K1 Modernity
K1 religious difference
K1 Russian empire
K1 Shāfiʿī law
K1 Daghestan
DO 10.1163/15685195-02412p06