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The Transformation of Islamic Art during the Sunni Revival

open access: diamondAmerican Journal of Islam and Society, 2003
The Islamic world underwent profound political and religious changes in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. These changes were paralleled by one of the most significant transformations of Islamic art and architecture.
Daniel Micallef
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Methodological and semantic reflections on the recognition of Sira by Afifi [PDF]

open access: yesکتابداری و اطلاع‌رسانی, 2021
Objective:"Sira of 'Afifi" by Afif al-Din Muhammad Kazeruni is a Persian translation of the book al-Muntaqa by his father, Sa'id al-Din Kazeruni. These two works, which were written in an eight-year duration by two famous Persian Sunni narrators and ...
Mohammadreza Maleksabet   +3 more
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Aḥmad Amīn’s Rationalist Approach to the Qur’ān and Sunnah

open access: yesReligions, 2022
The emergence of Islamic reformist thinking in the period of the so-called Nahḍah (Renaissance), in particular in the latter part of the XIX century, entailed a revival of interest in Muʿtazilite rationalism. Among the Sunni intellectuals who reevaluated
Ines Peta
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Adab without the Crusades

open access: yesAl-'Usur al-Wusta, 2020
The adab of the sixth/twelfth century is most often viewed through the lens of the counter-Crusade and the “Sunni revival.” It is generally assumed that Muslim solidarity was constructed through shared piety and an evocation of the pristine Islamic past.
Matthew L. Keegan
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Madrasas and Social Mobility in the Religious Economy: The Case of Nadwat al-’Ulama in Lucknow

open access: yesSouth Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal, 2015
Lucknow is world-famous for Islamic learning. The city produced the ‘ulama of Firangi Mahal, the Sunni seminary of Nadwat al-’Ulama, and the revival and consolidation of a distinctly Indian Shi’ism.
Christopher B. Taylor
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Pre-Eighteenth-Century Traditions of Revivalism: Damascus in the Thirteenth Century [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
This article examines whether it is possible to trace eighteenth and nineteenth-century revivalist thought to earlier ‘medieval’ examples. The discussion is centred on the issue of ijtihad/taqlid, which featured prominently in revivalist thought.
Hirschler, Konrad
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