{"product_id":"the-archetypal-sunni-scholar","title":"The Archetypal Sunnī Scholar","description":"\u003ch4\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eThe Archetypal Sunnī Scholar: Law, Theology, and Mysticism in the Synthesis of al-Bājūri\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis is a rare study of a late premodern Islamic thinker, Ibrahim al- Bajuri, a nineteenth-century scholar and rector of Cairo's al-Azhar University. Aaron Spevack explores al- Bajuri's legal, theological, and mystical thought, highlighting its originality and vibrancy in relation to the millennium of scholarship that preceded and informed it, and also detailing its continuing legacy. The book makes a case for the normativity of the Gabrielian Paradigm, the study of law, rational theology, and Sufism, in the person of al- Bajuri. Soon after his death in 1860, this typical pattern of scholarship would face significant challenges from modernists, reformers, and fundamentalists. Spevack challenges beliefs that rational theology, syllogistic logic, and Sufism were not part of the predominant conception of orthodox scholarship and shows this scholarly archetype has not disappeared as an ideal. In addition, the book contests prevailing beliefs in academic and Muslim circles about intellectual decline from the thirteenth through nineteenth centuries.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAuthor: Aaron Spevack\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBinding: Softcover\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Zaytuna College Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43324977315938,"sku":"978-1438453705","price":38.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1834\/5639\/files\/TheArchetypalSunniScholar.png?v=1789170331","url":"https:\/\/bookstore.zaytuna.edu\/products\/the-archetypal-sunni-scholar","provider":"Zaytuna College Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}