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  • Publisher:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Publication date:
    15 August 2023
    30 November 2022
    ISBN:
    9781399508582
    9781399508568
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    Middle East Studies, Area Studies, History, Middle East History
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    This book is not about Sufism. It is about the nature of the Sharīʿa. In the first three centuries of Islam, many scholars believed that juristic differences were rooted in the Sharīʿa's inherent flexibility. As this pluralistic attitude began to disappear, a number of Sufis defended and developed this idea through the centuries. They aimed to preserve the leniency and simplicity of the Sharīʿa against the complications and restrictions created by many jurists.

    This book focuses on four major Sufi figures whose contributions to legal theory were strongly shaped by their mystical thought Ibn ʿArabī, al-Ḥakīm al-Tirmidhī, al-Shaʿrānī and Aḥmad ibn Idrīs. It gives a detailed analysis of their legal thought, revealing that they belonged to the same tradition and developed each other's ideas, and also highlights their influence on other major Sufis all the way up to the nineteenth century. This is the first study to give a full picture of the role that Sufi thought played in the revivalist Islamic movements of the eighteenth, nineteenth and even twentieth centuries.

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