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Shah Waliyullah Dihlavi

Aspirations and Tensions of Islamic Cosmopolitanism

Av SherAli Tareen

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Shah Waliyullah Dihlavi (1703–1762) was a highly renowned and influential scholar of Islam who produced foundational works on the Qur’an, Islamic law and jurisprudence, Sufism, philosophy, and politics. He sought to reconcile seemingly competing strands of Muslim intellectual thought and practice, pursuing a cosmopolitan Islam marked not by dogmatism and finality but by debate and hermeneutical flexibility. Yet it is precisely in his attempt to forge such a vision that some of the most profound tensions and ambiguities of his thought were enshrined.In this detailed yet accessible study of his life and scholarship, set in the context of India on the eve of British colonisation, SherAli Tareen examines critical facets of Shah Waliyullah’s intellectual career and explores his contested legacy in South Asia and beyond.
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SherAli Tareen is Professor of Religious Studies at Franklin and Marshall College. He is the author of two award-winning monographs, Defending Muhammad in Modernity and Perilous Intimacies: Debating Hindu-Muslim Friendship after Empire.

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‘This study of the eighteenth-century Muslim scholar and Sufi Shah Waliyullah Dihlavi describes in fascinating detail why his life and thought are relevant for the Islamic tradition today. Tareen argues that the central notion for understanding his legacy is what he calls “Islamic cosmopolitanism” – the specific ability to reconcile apparently opposed Islamic ideas and interpretations in a thoughtful, productive manner. This learned book should be read by everyone who is seriously concerned with the intellectual challenge that contemporary Islamic thought is encountering.’

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