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Apr 5

What is happening in India today with the recent Waqf Bill is not unprecedented — it mirrors the historical dismantling of waqf institutions in the Ottoman Empire and French-colonized Algeria. History, once again, is repeating itself.

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This is part of a larger process: the secularization of Muslim waqf through legal and bureaucratic means. These reforms broke the very backbone of traditional religious institutions. By separating religion from spheres like economics, politics, and law

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— and by privatizing what was once public and sacred — the state redefined the concept of property itself.

What emerged was the private property regime, rooted in Christian Calvinist theology and legitimized by Christian jurists and theologians.

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Mar 14

If you're new to Islamic history and unsure where to begin, this reading list might help. These are books I've read, am currently reading or plan to read in the future. It doesn't reflect my favorites in Islamic legal, political, or intellectual history — that's a different topic

There are also some books I couldn't include, but I believe this list will be helpful. Once you dive into it, you'll discover the rest on your own. I'd love to hear your recommendations too! :)

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Apr 23, 2024

First of all, well if I misunderstood I'd be grateful to be correct instead of getting block. So first you spammed me with quotes and replies, then deleted it and then you blocked me after writing this thread...

This is the last time I'm engaging with you.

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I think you did not get what I was trying to say. The post-Schachtian scholars approach are different in a sense that it a revision of Schacht thesis and Orientalism. Crone, Powers, Cook, Motzki and Schacht.

my point was Schacht conclusions are terribly wrong and outdated

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when it comes to Islamic law whether it is on Ijtihad or dating the Origins. When it comes to Hadith Jonathan AC brown criticized Schacht's argumentum ex silentio. On Azami my point was that it is a general Orientalist attitude towards the outsider.

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Apr 21, 2024

For those who want to understand the general attitude of Orientalist scholars towards Islamic philosophy.

One of my favorite quotes by Wael Hallaq is:

"Every scholar has an intention. No scholar writes and thinks without having an intention" (contrary to Baconian fallacy)

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Surprisingly, students of orientalism have devoted little attention to the colonials' views of Islam—that is, to the attitudes and assumptions that underlay their writings and interpretations—or to the impact of those views on the development of Islamic Studies as a discipline.

The field of Orientalism is very important and I believe it should be given more importance than studying colonialism because it was the field of Orientalism that made colonialism possible and justified.

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Jan 27, 2024

The canons of Islamic intellectual history have changed significantly over the past 2 centuries. Scholars who happened to be the most influential are barely known today. 2 straight examples are
1. North African Ash'ari Muhammad b. Yusuf al Sanusi
2. Sa'd al Dīn al-Taftāzānī

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Sanūsī ’s theological and logical works were studied for centuries throughout the Arabic-speaking Sunni world and even beyond: there are pre-modern Turkish, Berber, Fulfulde, Malay, and Javanese translations or adaptations of his works

Taftāzānī’s works on philosophy, theology, jurisprudence, rhetoric and logic were a core part of the curricula of Ottoman, Iranian and Indo-Muslim colleges for half a millennium.

Both have seen their influence wane in the course of the twentieth century.

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Jan 25, 2024

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During the early Ottoman period, Ottomans needed and welcome scholars from different parts of the Muslim world. Scholars from Anatolia, Egypt, Syria, Iran, Iraq and Kipchaks came to Ottoman land. Majority of the scholars fled their regions because of political turmoil & enjoyed

Ottoman’s patronage. Ottoman advanced in the early period was focused in the Balkans and the territories where Islam was not established. It was during this time when the Ottomans were struggling with external threats and internal challenges.

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