The Salafiyya and Sufism

Muhammad 'Abduh and his Risālat al-Wāridāt (Treatise on Mystical Inspirations)

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2770854
AutoresOliver Scharbrodt (0000-0003-0439-1283, Western Kentucky University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2007
Volumen70
Número1
Páginas89-115
Fecha de publicación2007-02-01
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaBulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0041-977X • E-ISSN: 1474-0699
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0041977x07000031
OpenAlexW2164200555
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas11

This article questions certain assumptions on the intellectual history of modern Islam and on one of the most influential modern reform movements, the Salafiyya. By looking at the Sufi origins of one of the main Salafī reformers, it relativizes the notion of an inherent anti-Sufism of this reform movement. The article examines how Muhammad 'Abduh (1849-1905), the famous Egyptian reformer, converted to Sufism in his youth after experiencing a spiritual and intellectual crisis. The influence of his paternal great-uncle Shaykh Darwīsh al-Khādir and of Sayyid Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī (1837-1897) on 'Abduh's spiritual and intellectual formation will be investigated. In his youth, Sufism provided him with an alternative form of religiosity with which he could express his dissatisfaction with the representatives of mainstream Islam in his time. 'Abduh's mystical inclinations found its literary expression in his first major work, the Risālat al-Wāridāt (Treatise on Mystical Inspirations), whose contents will be discussed in detail

Islam · Mainstream · Mysticism · Sufism · Theology · Education and Islamic Studies · Islamic Finance and Banking Studies · Islamic Studies and History · Philosophy · Religious studies

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