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Book/Printed Material The Ideal Way to Shed Traditions and Embrace First Principles.

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Title

  • The Ideal Way to Shed Traditions and Embrace First Principles.

Summary

  • This printed work by Nūr al-Ḥasan b. Ṣiddīq b. Ḥasan Khan (also seen as al-Qannawjī) deals with taqlid (adherence to Islamic tradition) and ijthad (flexible interpretation of religious principles), issues that have occupied Muslim thinkers for 1,400 years. Al-Ṭarīqah al-muthlá fī al-irshād ilá tark al-taqlīd wa-ittibāʻ mā huwa al-awlá (The ideal way to shed traditions and embrace first principles) is in itself less important than the context in which it was published. The author was from the Muslim court of Bhopal in India. He was the son of a prolific author, Muḥammad Siddīq Ḥasan Khan, consort of the reigning begum of that Indian principality. The family was distinguished in the Islamic sciences and the politics of the age. The present work was published at the Jawa'ib Press in Istanbul, where several books written by both father and son were issued in Arabic. The father is known to have corresponded with Ottoman sultan Abdülhamid II and presumably influenced him in his thinking. The topic of taqlid was hotly debated at this time in all parts of the Muslim world. It also was of interest to the imperial British authorities, who wished to limit its influence in the spread of Wahhabism. The volume is incomplete, lacking the final stanzas of the terminal qasidah (poem). The book has guidewords and the signatures are numbered. The printing suffers from a broken and worn type font. In the biographical literature and in library catalogues, this work is often attributed to the author's father. It was republished in Beirut in 2000.

Names

  • Khān, Ḥasan ibn Ṣiddīq Ḥasan, born 1862 Author.

Created / Published

  • Constantinople : al-Jawa'ib Press, [1878 to 1879]

Headings

  • -  1878 to 1879
  • -  Islam
  • -  Islamic law
  • -  Islamic law--Interpretation and construction
  • -  Jurisprudence

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Original resource extent: 59 pages ; 22 centimeters.
  • -  Reference extracted from World Digital Library: Al-Alwani, Taha J., "Taqlid and Ijtihad," The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 8, number 1 (1991).
  • -  Original resource at: Qatar National Library.
  • -  Content in Arabic.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021666258

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Chicago citation style:

Khān, Ḥasan Ibn Ṣiddīq Ḥasan, Born 1862 Author. The Ideal Way to Shed Traditions and Embrace First Principles. [Constantinople: al-Jawa'ib Press, to 1879, 1878] Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021666258/.

APA citation style:

Khān, Ḥ. I. Ṣ. Ḥ. (1878) The Ideal Way to Shed Traditions and Embrace First Principles. [Constantinople: al-Jawa'ib Press, to 1879] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021666258/.

MLA citation style:

Khān, Ḥasan Ibn Ṣiddīq Ḥasan, Born 1862 Author. The Ideal Way to Shed Traditions and Embrace First Principles. [Constantinople: al-Jawa'ib Press, to 1879, 1878] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021666258/>.