RT Article
T1 Engaging Modern Muslims with Their Prophet: The Challenge of Contemporary Sīra Writing in the Thought of al-Azhar Scholar ʿAbd al-Ḥalīm Maḥmūd (1910-1978)
JF Arabica
VO 70
IS 4/5
SP 527
OP 553
A1 Vimercati Sanseverino, Ruggero 1979-
LA English
YR 2023
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1870839714
AB In contemporary Egypt, the secularization of discourses and practices raises a fundamental challenge to sīra writing concerning its vocation to make the founding narrative and the religious ideals of Islam comprehensible and meaningful to contemporary Muslims. Arguing that the Muslim community’s image of the Prophet does indeed both affect and reflect its religious and spiritual condition, the known Egyptian intellectual and former rector of al-Azhar, ʿAbd al-Ḥalīm Maḥmūd (1910-1978) holds the appearance of de-theologized forms of sīra writing as a symptom of a profound crisis of Islamic intellectuality. Against this background, his prophetological considerations seek to show that this challenge can only be overcome by a sīra writing that engages the audience in a personal and spiritual relationship with the Prophet.
K1 Spiritualité
K1 Rationalisme
K1 Soufisme
K1 Théologie
K1 ouléma
K1 Laïcité
K1 réformisme
K1 Égypte
K1 Prophète
K1 Islam
K1 Spirituality
K1 Rationalism
K1 Tradition
K1 Sufism
K1 Theology
K1 Ulama
K1 Secularism
K1 Reformism
K1 al-Azhar
K1 Egypt
K1 Sunna
K1 Muḥammad
K1 Prophet
K1 Sīra
DO 10.1163/15700585-12341657