Shah Wali Allah’s Hujjat Allah al-Baligha Intensive

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Shah Waliullah’s Hujjatullah al-Baligha Intensive

With Shaykh Akram Nadwi, Professor Marcia Hermansen, Professor Ebrahim Moosa &amp; Chaired by Professor Jonathan BrownShah Wali Allah Dehlavi (d. 1762) is one of the most consequential Muslim theologians, Qur’anic exegetes, and hadith scholars. Respected during his lifetime in 18th century India, his scholarship continues to influence many contemporary Muslim schools of thought. His magnum opus, Hujjat Allah al-Baligha (The Conclusive Argument from God), is a two-volume Arabic work arguing for, and proposing a methodology toward, the revival and integration of the Islamic intellectual disciplines. This one-day course will be taught by Shaykh Akram Nadwi, the distinguished hadith scholar and Dean of Cambridge Islamic College as well as Dr. Marcia Hermansen, Director of the Islamic World Studies Program at Loyola University Chicago and scholar and translator of the works of Shah Wali Allah, along with Dr. Ebrahim Moosa, the Mirza Family Professor of Islamic Thought &amp; Muslim Societies the University of Notre Dame. It will be facilitated by Dr. Jonathan Brown, the Alwaleed bin Talal Chair of Islamic Civilization at Georgetown University. Among topics the class will cover are a brief overview of Shah Wali Allah’s life, Shah Wali Allah’s intellectual interpretation of hadith and Shari’a, revelation and the law and Sufism and ethics as expounded in Hujjat Allah al-Baligha, and Shah Wali Allah’s legacy and continuing significance for Muslim thought.

About Shaykh Mohammad Akram Nadwi (Oxford)Shaykh Akram Nadwi studied and taught Shari’a at the Nadwatul ‘Ulama (India). He is a muhaddith specialising in ‘Ilm al-Rijal (the study of the narrators of Hadith) and has ijaza (licenses) from many mashayakh, including Abul Hasan Ali Al-Nadwi, Abdul-Fattah Abu Ghuddah, Ramadan Buti, AbdurRahman Kittani and Yusuf al-Qaradawi. Over the course of three decades he has authored, translated and conducted research on many titles related to fiqh, Qur’an, hadith and sufi orders. He has published widely in Urdu, Persian, Arabic, and English on Shah Wali Allah, a critical edition of Usūl al-Shāshī in Ḥanafī jurisprudence, original monographs on Islamic law, Quran and hadith sciences, and figures such as Abū Ḥanīfah, including his monumental 43 volume work on Al-Muhaddithaat –The Women Scholars in Islam. He was a research fellow at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Oxford University, and is recipient of the ‘Allāmah Iqbāl prize for contribution to Islamic thought and is the Principal and Co-Founder of Al-Salam Institute. As co-founder of Al-Salam Institute, he continues to teach advanced levels of Islamic Scholarship Program.

Professor Marcia Hermansen (Loyola University Chicago, USA)

Dr. Marcia Hermansen is Director of the Islamic World Studies Program and Professor in the Theology Department at Loyola University Chicago where she teaches courses in Islamic Studies and the academic study of religion. She received her Ph. D. from the University of Chicago in Arabic and Islamic Studies.

Her recently co-edited books include Religion and Violence: Christian and Muslim Theological and Pedagogical Reflections (Springer, 2017), Islam, Religions, and Pluralism in Europe (2016), Islam and Citizenship Education (2015), Muslima Theology: The Voices of Muslim Women Theologians (2013). Her monographs include Shah Wali Allah’s Treatises on Islamic Law (2010) and The Conclusive Argument from God, a study and translation (from Arabic) of Shah Wali Allah of Delhi’s, Hujjat Allah al-Baligha (Brill 1996).

Dr. Hermansen has also contributed numerous academic articles in the fields of Islamic Thought, Sufism, Islam and Muslims in South Asia, Muslims in America, and Women in Islam.

Professor Ebrahim Moosa (University of Notre Dame, USA)
Ebrahim E.I. Moosa is Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Notre Dame with appointments in the Keough School of Global Affairs, the Kroc Institute for International Peace and the Department of History. He is co-director of the Contending Modernities program, a global research and education program that fosters intellectual exchange between Catholic, Islamic and secular perspectives on science, politics and society. His interests span both classical and modern Islamic thought with a special focus on Islamic law, history, ethics and theology. His latest book, What is a Madrasa? was published in April 2015. World Religions Demystified, co-authored with Matt Cleary was published in 2014. 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 Study of Islamic Fundamentalism. With Jeffrey Kenney he co-edited Islam and the Modern World and with Shamil Jeppie and Richard Roberts he co-edited Muslim Family Law in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Professor Jonathan Brown (Georgetown University, USA)
Jonathan Brown is the Alwaleed bin Talal Chair of Islamic Civilization in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, and he is the Director of the Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim Christian Understanding. He received his BA in History from Georgetown University in 2000 and his doctorate in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from the University of Chicago in 2006. Dr. Brown has studied and conducted research in countries such as Egypt, Syria, Turkey, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, South Africa, India, Indonesia and Iran. His book publications include “The Canonization of al-Bukhari and Muslim: The Formation and Function of the Sunni Hadith Canon” (Brill, 2007), “Hadith: Muhammad’s Legacy in the Medieval and Modern World” (Oneworld, 2009) and “Muhammad: A Very Short Introduction” (Oxford University Press, 2011), which was selected for the National Endowment for the Humanities’ Bridging Cultures Muslim Journeys Bookshelf. His most recent book, “Misquoting Muhammad: The Challenges and Choices of Interpreting the Prophet’s Legacy” (Oneworld, 2014), was named one of the top books on religion in 2014 by the Independent. He has published articles in the fields of Hadith, Islamic law, Salafism, Sufism, Arabic lexical theory and Pre-Islamic poetry and is the editor in chief of the Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Law. Dr. Brown’s current research interests include Islamic legal reform and a translation of Sahih al-Bukhari.

Audience:Open to the general public and intermediate and advanced students of Islamic Sciences, Islamic Studies, post-graduates and academics.Pre-requisites:A basic requisite of Islamic Thought and the history of Islamic Thought in India, as well as Islamic Movements in the region is recommended but not essential.

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