History and Normativity in Traditional Indian Muslim Thought: Reading Shari`a in the Hermeneutics of Qari Muhammad Tayyab (d.1983)
Abstract
Traditional forms of Islamic thought have a particular understanding as to how norms
and values stand in relation to time and change. This article explores the view of
a prominent thinker Qari Muhammad Tayyab, affiliated to the Deobandi school, a prominent
traditionalist franchise of seminaries (madrasas) in South Asia.
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Ebrahim E.I. Moosa
Professor in the Department of Religious Studies
Ebrahim E.I. Moosa is Professor of Religious and Islamic Studies in the Department
of Religious Studies.
His interests span both classical and modern Islamic thought with a special focus
on Islamic law, history, ethics and theology.
Dr Moosa is the author of Ghazali and the Poetics of Imagination, winner of the American
Academy of Religion's Best First Book in the History of Religions (2006) and editor
of the last manuscript of the late Professor Fazlur Rahman, Revival and Reform in
Islam: A
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