Index
Abd al-Bari, Mawlana, 215, 216
Abd al-Hayy Laknawi see Laknawi,
Muhammad Abd al-Hayy
Abd al-Qadir al-Jazairi see al-Jazairi, Abd
al-Qadir
Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani see al-Jilani, Abd
al-Qadir
Abd al-Raziq, Ali , 248
Abd al-Wahhab, Muhammad b., 218,
232n
Abdel-Malek , Anouar, 41
Abduh, Muhammad, 125, 126, 170, 171,
172, 176, 193, 194, 195, 222, 241, 242,
244, 250, 265
Abdulhamid II, Sultan, 66, 67
Abrahamian, Ervand, 71
Abu Hanifa, 74
Abu-Lughod, Lila, 94
Abu Zayd, Nasr Hamid, 254
adab (ethical and practical norms of good life),
197, 199
Adams, Charles, 46
Afghani, Jamal al-Din, 241, 242, 243, 244,
265
Afghanistan, 81, 92, 104–11, 113
Africa
colonial Africa, 171, 241
East Africa, 159, 214
North Africa, 132, 133, 191, 241
South Africa, 176
West Africa, 129–30, 135, 140, 141, 191
Ahl-i-Hadith, 125, 150n
ahl al-hall wa-l-aqd (authorities, those who
loosen and bind), 69, 247
Ahmad b. Hanbal, 21, 239
Ahmad b. Idris, 132
Ahmad Khan, Sayyid see Khan, Sayyid
Ahmad
Aleppo, 62
Alevis, 135, 146–8
Algeria, 80, 81
Ali, Ameer, 172
Ali, Muhammad, 191
Aligarh, Anglo-Oriental College of, 242
All India Muslim Personal Law Board, 227,
228
Al-Qaida, 81
Amanullah, King, 107, 110
America, North, 6
amma (common public, commoners), 26, 186,
193, 194, 197, 274
Anglo-Muhammadan law, see law
Arberry, A. J., 134
Arkoun, Muhammad, 41
Arnason, Johann P., 7, 8
Arslan, Shakib, 240
Artz, Donna, 277
asabiyya (tribal cohesion, solidarity), 137
Asad, Talal, 8, 10, 11, 170, 174, 190, 196
Ashari, Abu-l-Hasan, 239
Asharites, 211, 239, 244, 271
ashraf (descendents of the Prophet), 59–60, 62,
see also elites
Atatürk, Mustafa Kemal, 71, 125, 237
authenticity, 36, 48, 239, 255, 279
authority, 5, 6, 9, 12, 19, 25, 26, 28, 29, 30,
37, 78, 170, 187, 199, 209, 210, 254
ambiguities of, 221–8
articulation of, 214–20
contestations of, 9
divine, 4
fragmentation of, 213
patterns of, 9
political, 248, 253–4: religious legitimation
of, 198, 247
religious, 4, 14, 25, 84, 100, 206–30, 242;
articulation of, 214–25; medieval Islam
and, 207–11; new structures of, 226–30