التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Normative Spirituality in Wahhābī Prophetology: Saʿīd b. Wahf al-Qaḥṭānī's (d. 2018) Raḥmatan li-l-ʿĀlamīn as Reparatory Theology. |
| المؤلفون: |
Sinani, Besnik |
| المصدر: |
Religions; May2024, Vol. 15 Issue 5, p543, 12p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
SPIRITUALITY, WAHHABIYAH, SALAFIYAH, SUFISM, SUNNI Islam, THEOLOGY |
| People: |
MUHAMMAD, Prophet, d. 632 |
| مستخلص: |
The Wahhābī movement within Sunni Islam—a substantial section of the larger Salafi movement—has been often depicted in both western academic studies and Muslim polemical writings negatively as devoid of spirituality, obsessed with a particular creedal understanding that drives its well-known salvific exclusivism, and with rigid legalism. This depiction is partly due to Wahhābism's historical opposition to Sufism, the branch of Islamic knowledge and practices that has theorized, defined, and delineated Islam's vision of the spiritual transformation taking place in the believer's journey towards God. That opposition notwithstanding, the article argues that beyond terminological distinctions, one can locate in Wahhābī texts common Islamic themes of spiritual transformation. Primarily, such texts can be found in Wahhābī publications of the writings of 13th century Damascene Muslim scholars like Ibn Taymīya (d. 728/1328) and his most celebrated student, Ibn Qayyim al-Jawzīya (d. 751/1350). Building on that tradition, Wahhābī scholars have additionally produced texts that display core ideals of the Muslim spiritual goals. Such texts have additionally advanced the movement's theological concerns and have driven the efforts towards "the purification" of Islamic sources from what Wahhābis deem to be heretical practices and beliefs accumulated throughout the centuries. Wahhābī prophetological texts, the article argues, serve as primary sources where both Wahhābī spiritual ideals and their sectarian reparatory agenda can be identified. The book of the late Saʿīd b. Wahf al-Qaḥṭānī (1952–2018), a well-known Saudi Wahhābī author of the second half of the twentieth century, Raḥmatan li-l-ʿĀlamīn Muḥammad Rasūl Allāh, serves as a representative text of these aims and ideals. Wahhābī spirituality, as identified in the work of al-Qaḥṭānī, has been depicted here as "normative spirituality" in order to point to its intended purpose of engendering praxis that is grounded in Islam's well-known notion of prophetic imitatio. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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