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Toward a Sunni Consensus on the Rightly Guided Caliphs

Journal of the American Oriental Society, 2022
This article studies how the ʿUthmānī position endorsing the first three caliphs, which was embraced by the majority of the ahl al-ḥadīth in the first two centuries of Islam, came to be replaced by the four-caliph thesis.
I-Wen Su
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Performances of portraits: Ubiquity, minimality, and proximity with pictures of a late Sufi Sheikh

Civilisations, 2023
In this article I explore some of the choices and practices of portrait placement at work in the lodges of an affluent Sufi movement in Europe, focusing in particular on the widely disseminated pictures of the movement’s founder and late figurehead ...
Naïm Jeanbart
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The Sunni Islamic Revival

The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of the Middle East, 2021
Over the past century, waves of Sunni reformers from the Middle East to South Asia to central Asia have called for a return to Islam’s foundations by invoking well-established concepts in Islamic thought such as tajdid (renewal) and islah (reform).
Aaron Rock-Singer
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Governance in the periphery through schooling: educational policies and Nusayri/‘Alawi children in late Ottoman Syria

Paedagogica Historica, 2022
This article examines the campaign of schooling and education reforms for non-Sunni or “heterodox” groups, particularly the Nusayri community, during the reign of Abdulhamid II (1876–1908) in the late Ottoman Empire in Syria and Southern Turkey.
Ali Çapar
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Does a Mamluk Sultan Hold Religious Authority? Quranic Exegesis and ḥadīṯ Scholarship in Late Mamluk Courtly maǧālis

Intellectual History of the Islamicate World, 2022
The article critically reexamines the notion of Mamluk rulers being uninterested in religious affairs and the authority a supreme religious status could bestow. It shows that, with the late Mamluk ruler Qāniṣawh al-Ġawrī (r.
Christian Mauder
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The Shift of Al-Shawkani's Theological Thinking in Tafseer Fath al-Qadeer from Zaydi Shi’i to Ash’ari Sunni

, 2020
This article aims to examine Al-Shawkani's theological thinking in Tafseer Fath al-Qadeer which allegedly underwent a shift of thought from Zaydi (the Fivers) Shi‟i sect to Ash‟ari (the Twelver) Sunni.
A. Atabik
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ʿAlī Jumʿa as Editor: Reviving the Ḥāshiya in Late-Twentieth-Century Egypt

Philological Encounters
The article analyzes a 2002 edition of Tuḥfat al-murīd ʿalā Jawharat al-tawḥīd, a supercommentary written by Ibrāhīm al-Bājūrī (d. 1860) on Ibrāhīm al-Laqānī’s (d. 1632) base text in Ashʿarī theology.
Mary Elston
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The Scholarly Contributions of Jābir ibn Yazīd al-Juʿfī*

Journal of Shi'a Islamic Studies, 2023
:Abū Muḥammad Jābir ibn Yazīd al-Juʿfī al-Kufī (c. 50–128 ah) is considered as one of the well-known and trustworthy followers and companions of Imam Al-Bāqir and Imam Al-Ṣādiq.
Abbas Ahmadvand, Sayyed Hesamuddin Ale Yasin, S. Masroor   +2 more
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Recovering the Ottoman waqf: the reconfiguration of Ottoman-Islamic intellectual culture in twentieth-century Istanbul

Middle Eastern Studies
This article investigates how waqf properties facilitated the reconfiguration of Ottoman-Islamic intellectual culture in twentieth-century Istanbul following the Turkish state’s abolition of Ottoman religious institutions. The article first delves into a
Fawaz Abdul Salam
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Neither Existent Nor Non-existent, Neither Created Nor Uncreated: Human Agency and Free Choice in Māturīdī Scholar Muḥammad b. Walī b. Rasūl al-Qīrshahrī al-Izmīrī’s (d. 1165/1751) Kitāb al-Masāʾil al-khilāfiyya bayna al-Māturīdiyya wa-l-Ashāʿira

Journal of Islamicjerusalem Studies
The Sunni theological school of Māturīdiyya emphasizes human freedom in making choices and performing acts, particularly in the context of debate about divine omnipotence and human responsibility.
Angelika Brodersen
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