Questioning the Authority of the Past
The Ahl al-Qur'an Movements in the Punjab
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Pakistan
- Date of Publication 19 January 2012
- ISBN 9780195473483
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages500 pages
- Size 228x146x24 mm
- Weight 592 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 22 b/w photographs 0
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Short description:
Ali Usman Qasmi's work on the Ahl al-Quran constitutes a seminal study into the intellectual history of Islamic reform movements which breaks new ground for scholarship in the field both empirically and conceptually.
MoreLong description:
Unlike other studies on South Asian Islam, which either ignore the Ahl al-Quran or misread their dogmatic approach, and also the extent of its impact, the present study researches the Ahl al-Quran as disparate set of movements originating during the late nineteenth century, mainly in Punjab. To varying degrees, these movements and their ideologues-most notably Maulvi Abdullah Chakralavi, Khwaja Ahmad-ud-Din Amritsari and Ghulam Ahmad Parvez-espoused the centrality of
Quran as the only divine text required for the inference of religious doctrines. They questioned the relevance and authority of such sources as hadith and classical works of exegesis and jurisprudential compendiums. Their motive was to engender a discursive space in which Islam could be projected as
a religion compatible with modernity, tolerant of other religions and progressive-egalitarian in its spirit. This particular version of Islam, as part of the larger discourse on Islamic modernism, was instrumental in shaping the politics of Islam in Pakistan up to 1960s and continues to inform the religious worldview of a large number of Muslims touched by modern sensibilities.
this is an important contribution not only to towards a better understanding of the Ahl al-Qur'an nut also to the study of Islam in modern South Asia.
Table of Contents:
List of Figures and Images
A Note on Transliteration
: Introduction
: The History of Hadith Literature: A Review of Muslim and Western Theoretical Perspectives
: The Tradition of Hadith Studies in South Asia
: Revisionist Discourses on Hadith Studies in Late Nineteenth Century British India, 1850-1900
: Towards a New Prophetology: Maulvi 'Abdullah Chakralavi's Ahl al-Qur'an Movement, 1900-32
: Islamic Universalism: The 'Amritsari' Version of Ahl al-Qur'an, 1924-52
: 'God's Kingdom on Earth': Ghulam Ahmad Parvez, the Pakistani State and the Politics of Islam, 1947-69
Glossary
Appendix I: Categories of Hadith
Appendix II: A Selection of 'Controversial' Ahadith from 'Authentic' Collections
Appendix III: Images
Bibliography
Index
