Islamic Theology, Philosophy and Law

Screening Ṣiddīq Ḥasan Khān’s Library 177 Taqwiyat al-īmān, which was translated into Urdu in 1833–34 but seems to have been wri ...

178 Claudia Preckel 3. Central Impact of the Yemen Connection Around the mid-19th century, Ṣiddīq Ḥasan Khān got to know two bro ...

Screening Ṣiddīq Ḥasan Khān’s Library 179 Yemenite scholar Muḥammad b. ʿAlī al-Shawkānī.^54 Zayn al-ʿĀbidīn and his brother had ...

180 Claudia Preckel blind acceptance of other scholars’ opinions (taqlīd) and who held their main proponent Ibn Ḥazm in special ...

Screening Ṣiddīq Ḥasan Khān’s Library 181 4. Ṣiddīq Ḥasan’s Rise to Power and Subsequent Fall During the first years of his stay ...

182 Claudia Preckel Ḥasan’s future career as a Nawwāb and his efforts to transform Bhopal into a state broadly governed by Islam ...

Screening Ṣiddīq Ḥasan Khān’s Library 183 In Bhopal, the second marriage of the Bēgum in 1871 did not remain undisputed. Shāh Ja ...

184 Claudia Preckel Muḥsin and Muḥammad Bashīr Sahsawānī, were still able to publish their books indicates that Ṣiddīq Ḥasan Khā ...

Screening Ṣiddīq Ḥasan Khān’s Library 185 of the British administration.^75 One of Ṣiddīq Ḥasan’s “agents” was Dhū al-Fiqār Aḥma ...

186 Claudia Preckel he identified, he studied and of which he possessed several books. Like almost all ʿulamāʾ in the Indian con ...

Screening Ṣiddīq Ḥasan Khān’s Library 187 more already during Ṣiddīq Ḥasan’s lifetime. As will be discussed lat- er, other Bhopa ...

188 Claudia Preckel schools of law, of whom Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal was regarded as the greatest authority. The Ahl-i Ḥadīth further cla ...

Screening Ṣiddīq Ḥasan Khān’s Library 189 attitude towards the Shia.^88 Also, both al-Qārī and the Ahl-i Ḥadīth were objected to ...

190 Claudia Preckel In the same work, Nadwī suggests that there was a “successive chain of reformers and revivalists from Shaikh ...

Screening Ṣiddīq Ḥasan Khān’s Library 191 students, notably Nāṣir al-Ḥāzimī, ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq Banārsī, ʿAbd al-Qayyūm Buḍhānawī and ...

192 Claudia Preckel category of Hadith, namely classified (muṣannaf) Hadith works. This means that this Hadith material is arran ...

Screening Ṣiddīq Ḥasan Khān’s Library 193 al-Shawkānī either in his personal network or in his chain of transmis- sion. It was n ...

194 Claudia Preckel school of law, have often relied on fatwas from Saudi-Arabian scholars, who are adherents of the Ḥanbalī sch ...

Screening Ṣiddīq Ḥasan Khān’s Library 195 tion and style of language were not as complex as in the other ʿaqīda treatises mentio ...

196 Claudia Preckel al-ʿAqīda al-ḥamawiyya al-kubrā taken up by Ṣiddīq Ḥasan was Ibn Taymiyya’s criticism of the Ashʿariyya, alt ...