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24 Islamic L. & Soc'y 1 (2017)

handle is hein.journals/islamls24 and id is 1 raw text is: ISLAMIC LAW AND SOCIETY 24 (2017) 1-43 Islamic Law and Society BRILL brill.com/ils Qur~an and Sunna or the Madhhabs?: A Salafi Polemic Against Islamic Legal Tradition Emad Hamdeh Embry Riddle Aeronautical University hamdehe@erau.edu Abstract The Albanian scholar Muhammad Nasir al-Din al-Albamn (d. 1999) established a unique type of Salafism, a movement whose adherents follow a puritanical model of Muslim creed, exegesis, and conduct that is critical of madhhab Traditionalism. In this article I present an annotated translation of an audio lecture in which Albani attempted to defend Salafism against its anti-madhhab image. I shed light on the religious and social climate that played a critical role in triggering AlbamnI's disdain for Traditionalism and led him to discredit madhhab Traditionalistfiqh and replace it with his own interpreta- tion of the jurisprudential requirements of Islamic scripture. Among the arguments I make is that AlbamnI's claim to follow only the Qur'an and Sunna is a rhetorical strategy designed to present Salafism as the absolute truth and distinguish it from being catego- rized as another madhhab or religious movement. Keywords Madhhabs - Nasir al-Din al-Albamn - Salafism - Traditionalism - Fiqh - Hanafi school - Taqlid * I would like to thank the International Institute of Islamic Thought (1IIT) for providing a short-term research grant that resulted in the production of this article. I would also like to thank David Powers, Osamah Salhia, Lynnette Porter, and the anonymous reviewers for their valuable feedback. @ KONINKLIJKE BRILL NV, LEIDEN, 2016 DOI 10.1163/15685195-00240A01

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