A Historiographical Approach to the Qur’an and Shari’a in Late 19th Century India

The Case of Chiragh ‘Ali

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ID16887018
AuthorsCarimo Mohomed (0000-0002-8205-4429, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume8
Issue17
Publication date2015-04-29
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueHistória da Historiografia International Journal of Theory and History of Historiography (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1983-9928 • E-ISSN: 1983-9928
PublisherSociedade Brasileria de Teoria e Historia de Historiografia (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.15848/hh.v0i17.751
OpenAlexW1973645173
LanguageEN
References cited9

Analysing the book The Proposed Political, Legal, and Social Reforms in the Ottoman Empire and Other Mohammadan States (1883) and undertaking a historical contextualization, this paper problematizes the epistemis and epistemological framework underlying the articulation of Chiragh ‘Ali’s discourse, focusing on how he viewed the Qur’an and Shari’a according to the intellectual debates in the 19th century. Often refuting, in his writings, missionary and Orientalist criticisms of Islam as being hostile to reason and incapable of reform, Chiragh ‘Ali rather argued that the Islamic legal system and schools were human institutions capable of modification. While defending that the Qur’an taught religious doctrine and rules for morality, Chiragh ‘Ali held the opinion that it did not support a detailed code of immutable civil law or dictate a specific political system, drawing on an examination of the traditional sources of the Islamic law and methods to overcome the rigidity of traditional theologians

Contextualization · Doctrine · Empire · Historiography · Islam · Legal doctrine · Morality · Orientalism · Political science · Politics · Sharia · Sociology · Theology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Islamic Studies and History · Law · Philosophy · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East

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