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This collective volume provides an integrative historical and contemporary discussion of Sunni ʿulamaʾ in the Middle East in both an urban and a semi-tribal context. The various chapters reinforce a renewed interest in the position of the ʿulamaʾ in modern times and offer new insights as to their ideological vitality and contribution to the public discourse on moral and sociopolitical issues.

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Chanfi Ahmed shows how West African ʿulamāʾ, who fled the European colonization of their region to settle in Mecca and Medina, helped the regime of King Ibn Sa’ud at its beginnings in the field of teaching and spreading the Salafῑ-Wahhabῑ’s Islam both inside and outside Saudi Arabia. This is against the widespread idea of considering the spread of the Salafῑ-Wahhābῑ doctrine as being the work of ʿulamāʾ from Najd (Central Arabia) only. We learn here that the diffusion of this doctrine after 1926 was much more the work of ʿulamāʾ from other parts of the Muslim World who had already acquired this doctrine and spread it in their countries by teaching and publishing books related to it. In addition Chanfi Ahmed demonstrates that concerning Islamic reform and mission (daʿwa), Africans are not just consumers, but also thinkers and designers.

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Ulama --- Islamic learning and scholarship --- Ulémas --- Musulmans --- Savoir et érudition --- Tombouctou (Mali) --- History --- Intellectual life --- Histoire --- Vie intellectuelle --- -Ulama --- -Ulema --- Islam --- Muslim scholars --- Learning and scholarship --- Muslim learning and scholarship --- Muslims --- Functionaries --- -Tombouctou (Mali) --- -History --- Ulémas --- Savoir et érudition --- Ulema --- Timbuctoo (Mali) --- Tombutu (Mali) --- Timboctú (Mali) --- Timbuctú (Mali) --- Timbuktu (Mali) --- Timbuktu --- Tumbuktū (Mali) --- Tunbukt (Mali) --- Tunbuktū (Mali) --- History. --- Intellectual life.

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Religious Scholars and the Umayyads analyzes legal and theological developments during the Marwanid period (64/684--132/750), focusing on religious scholars who supported the Umayyads. Their scholarly network extended across several generations and significantly influenced the development of the Islamic faith. Umayyad qadis, who represented the intersection of religious authority and imperial power, were particularly important. This book challenges the long-standing paradigm that the emerging Muslim faith was shaped by religious dissenters who were hostile to the Umayyads. A prosopographical analysis of Umayyad-era scholars demonstrates that piety and opposition were not necessarily synonymous. Reputable scholars served as qadois, tutors and advisors to Umayyad caliphs and governors. Their religious credentials were untarnished by their association with the Umayyads and they appear prominently in later hoadith collections and fiqh works. This historiographical study demonstrates that excessive reliance on al-Tabari's chronicle has distorted the image of the Umayyads. Alternatively, biographical sources produced by later hadith scholars reveal a rich tradition of Umayyad-era religious scholarship that undermines al-Tabari's assumptions. Offering a better understanding of early Islamic religious development, this book is a valuable resource for students and researchers in the fields of Islamic history, Islamic legal studies and Arabic historiography .

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