Islamic Theology, Philosophy and Law

Screening Ṣiddīq Ḥasan Khān’s Library 197 the idea of the unity of being (waḥdat al-wujūd) of Ibn ʿArabī (d. 1240). Even scholar ...

198 Claudia Preckel should be interpreted other than “sitting on the throne”. God’s attri- butes must be characterised as they w ...

Screening Ṣiddīq Ḥasan Khān’s Library 199 plained about the difficulties and obstacles on his journey.^117 Later, he seemed to h ...

200 Claudia Preckel into contact with other influences, mostly during their pilgrimage to Mecca. Nevertheless, all of them remai ...

Screening Ṣiddīq Ḥasan Khān’s Library 201 ar al-Nawawī, Shāh Walī Allāh developed four stages of the rank of mujtahidūn.^125 In ...

202 Claudia Preckel (mujtahid muṭlaq). Benjamin Jokisch has shown in some detail that Ibn Taymiyya indeed practised ijtihād.^127 ...

Screening Ṣiddīq Ḥasan Khān’s Library 203 between the Ahl-i Ḥadīth and the Ḥanafīs are in this field of Islamic law. Two juridic ...

204 Claudia Preckel reason for these debates was the question of authenticity and to dem- onstrate one’s familiarity with the li ...

Screening Ṣiddīq Ḥasan Khān’s Library 205 rect that, according to Koran and Sunna, divorce is permitted, but not pleasing to All ...

206 Claudia Preckel Shia who deny the legitimacy of the triple ṭalāq. Until the present day, the All India Muslim Personal Law B ...

Screening Ṣiddīq Ḥasan Khān’s Library 207 In the discussion on triple ṭalāq, the Ahl-i Ḥadīth opinion became very influential in ...

208 Claudia Preckel propagated that the Muslim community had begun to decline in gen- eral, including morally, culturally, and e ...

Screening Ṣiddīq Ḥasan Khān’s Library 209 Ibn Muḥsin wrote a refutation of this view,^149 in which he drew on the works of al-Sh ...

210 Claudia Preckel Khān was convinced that women were more susceptible to commit bid ʿa than men were, as the examples of bid ʿ ...

Screening Ṣiddīq Ḥasan Khān’s Library 211 bidaʿ, he added that his source was Ibn Taymiyya or Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya, but withou ...

212 Claudia Preckel created, which should guarantee public order, justice in society and an effective economy by controlling the ...

Screening Ṣiddīq Ḥasan Khān’s Library 213 buildings.^162 These rulings were kept during Ṣiddīq Ḥasan’s period of rule, but not e ...

214 Claudia Preckel from al-Shawkānī, who had incorporated Ibn Taymiyya’s most impor- tant teachings in his own works. Al-Shawkā ...

Screening Ṣiddīq Ḥasan Khān’s Library 215 its to the grave of the Prophet in Medina. Another prominent member of the Ahl-i Ḥadīt ...

216 Claudia Preckel lic debates (munāẓara) with almost all the other religious movements of his time. Muḥammad Bashīr Sahsawānī ...