ISLAM BEFORE MODERNITY IBD

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This book examines the role of tradition and discursive knowledge transmission on the formation of the âÇÖulamÄüâÇÖ, the learned scholarly class in Islam, and their approach to the articulation of the Islamic disciplines. The basisáof this examination is the twelfth/eighteenth century scholar, Aá¸Ñmad ibn Muá¸Ñammad al-DardÄ«r, an Egyptian AzharÄ« who wrote highly influential treatises in the disciplines of creedal theology, MÄülikÄ« jurisprudence, and taá¹úawwufá(Sufism). He alsoáoccupied a prominent role in the urban life of Cairo, and is accredited with several incidents of intercession with the rulers on behalf of the Cairo populace. This book argues that a useful framework for evaluating the intellectual contributions of post-classical scholars such as al-DardÄ«r involves theáconcept of an Islamic discursive tradition, where al-DardÄ«râÇÖs specific contributions were aimed towards preserving, upholding, and maintaining the Islamic tradition, including the intellectual 'sub-traditions' that came to define it.