Basheer M Nafi
Biographic Data
| ID | 2358234 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Basheer M Nafi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Basheer M |
| FAMILY NAME | Nafi |
| SIGNATURE | NAFI B M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Reading |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Salafism Revived
In 1298/1881, the Iraqi scholar Nu'mān al-Alūsī published his Jalā' al-'aynayn fī muhākamat al-Ahmadayn, one of the most astute tracts to be written in defense of the fourteenth-century Hanbalī scholar, Ibn Taymiyya. This article attempts to read into the significance of Jalā' al-'aynayn by studying the life and educational environment of its author, the subject matter of the book, the format in which it appeared, and the circumstances of its pub…
A Teacher of Ibn 'Abd al-Wahhāb
Muhaammad Hayāt al-Sindī, the most eminent hadīth scholar in the Hijazi city of Madina in the first half of the eighteenth century, was one of the teachers of the controversial Najdī reformist Muhammad b. 'Abd al-Wah-hāb. Scholars of early modern Islamic thought disagree about al-Sindī's influence on Ibn 'Abd al-Wahhāb. In this article I present a brief study of the life and works of Hayāt al-Sindī, focusing on his approach to hadīth as a primary…
Tāhir ibn c Āshūr
Fatwā and War
The domination of the world system by the nation-state poses a formidable challenge to modern Islamic political and juristic discourse, especially when the state is secular and non-Islamic. In this article, I examine a collective fatwā, issued a few weeks after the September 11 attacks on Washington D. C. and New York City. The fatwā gave permission to American Muslim soldiers to participate in the American military efforts against the perpetrato…
Imperialism, Class and Power in pre-Republican Egypt
Tasawwuf and Reform in Pre-Modern Islamic Culture
tas · awwuf and reform in pre-modern islamic culture 307 © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2002 Die Welt des Islams 42, 3 Also available online – www.brill.nl TAÕAWWUF AND REFORM IN PRE-MODERN ISLAMIC CULTURE: IN SEARCH OF IBR@HμM AL-K·R@Nμ BY BASHEER M. NAFI Oxfordshire Early mentions of Ibr ̧hom ibn Ýasan al-K¢r ̧no (1025 AH/1616- 1101 AH/1689) in modern scholarship on Islamic intellectual history characterized him as a a¢fo teacher. 1 Investigat…
Shaykh 'Izz Al-Din Al-Qassam
Journal Article SHAYKH ‘IZZ AL-DÏN AL-QASSÄM: A REFORMIST AND A REBEL LEADER Get access BASHEER M. NAFI BASHEER M. NAFI University of Reading Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Islamic Studies, Volume 8, Issue 2, July 1997, Pages 185–215, https://doi.org/10.1093/jis/8.2.185 Published: 01 July 1997
The General Islamic Congress of Jerusalem Reconsidered
The First Arab-Islamic Conference
This conference has been in preparation for almost thirty months. Thereason for this rather long (by Middle Eastern standards) gestation periodwas the unprecedented nature of the conference, difficulties of selectingparticipants and finding a safe and available location.Since the early 1950s, Arab nationalist and Islamic relations havebeen passing through very turbulent periods. The secularization ofArabism and the rise of Arab nationalists to po…
Pluralism and Ethnic and Sectarian Diversity in the Arab World
lbis seminar, sponsored jointly by the International Institute of IslamicThought and the Waqf Fund of the Kuwaiti Ministry of Awqaf, washeld at Herndon, Virginia. Twenty-five papers were presented during theseminar's eight sessions, which were attended by scores of Arab Muslimscholars and intellectuals from the United States and abroad, either as primaryauthors of research papers, commentators, or contributors to theserious and in-depth debate th…
Palestine at the End of the Ottoman Era
A Teacher of Ibn 'Abd al-Wahhāb
Muhaammad Hayāt al-Sindī, the most eminent hadīth scholar in the Hijazi city of Madina in the first half of the eighteenth century, was one of the teachers of the controversial Najdī reformist Muhammad b. 'Abd al-Wah-hāb. Scholars of early modern Islamic thought disagree about al-Sindī's influence on Ibn 'Abd al-Wahhāb. In this article I present a brief study of the life and works of Hayāt al-Sindī, focusing on his approach to hadīth as a primary…
Fatwā and War
The domination of the world system by the nation-state poses a formidable challenge to modern Islamic political and juristic discourse, especially when the state is secular and non-Islamic. In this article, I examine a collective fatwā, issued a few weeks after the September 11 attacks on Washington D. C. and New York City. The fatwā gave permission to American Muslim soldiers to participate in the American military efforts against the perpetrato…
Tasawwuf and Reform in Pre-Modern Islamic Culture
tas · awwuf and reform in pre-modern islamic culture 307 © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2002 Die Welt des Islams 42, 3 Also available online – www.brill.nl TAÕAWWUF AND REFORM IN PRE-MODERN ISLAMIC CULTURE: IN SEARCH OF IBR@HμM AL-K·R@Nμ BY BASHEER M. NAFI Oxfordshire Early mentions of Ibr ̧hom ibn Ýasan al-K¢r ̧no (1025 AH/1616- 1101 AH/1689) in modern scholarship on Islamic intellectual history characterized him as a a¢fo teacher. 1 Investigat…
Salafism Revived
In 1298/1881, the Iraqi scholar Nu'mān al-Alūsī published his Jalā' al-'aynayn fī muhākamat al-Ahmadayn, one of the most astute tracts to be written in defense of the fourteenth-century Hanbalī scholar, Ibn Taymiyya. This article attempts to read into the significance of Jalā' al-'aynayn by studying the life and educational environment of its author, the subject matter of the book, the format in which it appeared, and the circumstances of its pub…
The General Islamic Congress of Jerusalem Reconsidered
Pluralism and Ethnic and Sectarian Diversity in the Arab World
lbis seminar, sponsored jointly by the International Institute of IslamicThought and the Waqf Fund of the Kuwaiti Ministry of Awqaf, washeld at Herndon, Virginia. Twenty-five papers were presented during theseminar's eight sessions, which were attended by scores of Arab Muslimscholars and intellectuals from the United States and abroad, either as primaryauthors of research papers, commentators, or contributors to theserious and in-depth debate th…
Palestine at the End of the Ottoman Era
The First Arab-Islamic Conference
This conference has been in preparation for almost thirty months. Thereason for this rather long (by Middle Eastern standards) gestation periodwas the unprecedented nature of the conference, difficulties of selectingparticipants and finding a safe and available location.Since the early 1950s, Arab nationalist and Islamic relations havebeen passing through very turbulent periods. The secularization ofArabism and the rise of Arab nationalists to po…
The General Islamic Congress of Jerusalem Reconsidered
Shaykh 'Izz Al-Din Al-Qassam
Journal Article SHAYKH ‘IZZ AL-DÏN AL-QASSÄM: A REFORMIST AND A REBEL LEADER Get access BASHEER M. NAFI BASHEER M. NAFI University of Reading Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Islamic Studies, Volume 8, Issue 2, July 1997, Pages 185–215, https://doi.org/10.1093/jis/8.2.185 Published: 01 July 1997
Imperialism, Class and Power in pre-Republican Egypt
Tasawwuf and Reform in Pre-Modern Islamic Culture
tas · awwuf and reform in pre-modern islamic culture 307 © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2002 Die Welt des Islams 42, 3 Also available online – www.brill.nl TAÕAWWUF AND REFORM IN PRE-MODERN ISLAMIC CULTURE: IN SEARCH OF IBR@HμM AL-K·R@Nμ BY BASHEER M. NAFI Oxfordshire Early mentions of Ibr ̧hom ibn Ýasan al-K¢r ̧no (1025 AH/1616- 1101 AH/1689) in modern scholarship on Islamic intellectual history characterized him as a a¢fo teacher. 1 Investigat…
Fatwā and War
The domination of the world system by the nation-state poses a formidable challenge to modern Islamic political and juristic discourse, especially when the state is secular and non-Islamic. In this article, I examine a collective fatwā, issued a few weeks after the September 11 attacks on Washington D. C. and New York City. The fatwā gave permission to American Muslim soldiers to participate in the American military efforts against the perpetrato…
Tāhir ibn c Āshūr
A Teacher of Ibn 'Abd al-Wahhāb
Muhaammad Hayāt al-Sindī, the most eminent hadīth scholar in the Hijazi city of Madina in the first half of the eighteenth century, was one of the teachers of the controversial Najdī reformist Muhammad b. 'Abd al-Wah-hāb. Scholars of early modern Islamic thought disagree about al-Sindī's influence on Ibn 'Abd al-Wahhāb. In this article I present a brief study of the life and works of Hayāt al-Sindī, focusing on his approach to hadīth as a primary…
Salafism Revived
In 1298/1881, the Iraqi scholar Nu'mān al-Alūsī published his Jalā' al-'aynayn fī muhākamat al-Ahmadayn, one of the most astute tracts to be written in defense of the fourteenth-century Hanbalī scholar, Ibn Taymiyya. This article attempts to read into the significance of Jalā' al-'aynayn by studying the life and educational environment of its author, the subject matter of the book, the format in which it appeared, and the circumstances of its pub…
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