Abū Nasr Qūrsāwī and the beginnings of modern reformism /
First Statement of Responsibility
Nathan Spannaus.
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New York, NY :
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Oxford University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
[2019]
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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1 online resource
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Transliteration, dates, ethnonyms -- Timeline of Volga-Ural history -- Map: central Eurasia, ca. 1800 -- Introduction-historiography of reform and tradition -- An 'Ālim in the Russian Empire -- An epistemological critique -- Ijtihād and the function of legal theory -- The question of the divine attributes -- Postclassical Kalām -- Reform within the scholarly tradition -- Modernity -- The transformation of the religious environment -- Conclusion-separating Qūrs̳āwī and Jadidism -- Bibliography -- Index.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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The end of the eighteenth century was a transformational period for the Muslim communities in the Russian Empire and their relationship with the tsarist state. One of the major figures to emerge out of this context was the reformer Abu Nasr Qursawi (1776-1812). A controversial religious scholar, he put forward a sweeping reform of the Islamic scholarly tradition that was influential among these communities into the twentieth century. Nathan Spannaus presents the first detailed analysis of Qursawi's reformism, both in its contours and broad historical setting, addressing issues of modernity, se.
PERSONAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Qūrṣāvī, al-Naṣr ʻAbdu al-Naṣīr bin Ibrāhīm al-Bulghārī,1776-1812.