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100			_a Zaman, Muhammad Qasim _949385
245			_aLaw and Sufism in modern South Asia: A changing relationship
260			_aModern Asian Studies
300			_a58(2), Mar, 2024: p.328-356
520			_aThis article studies some major shifts in the relationship between law and Sufism in South Asian Islam between the eighteenth and the twentieth centuries. It does so by focusing on Shah Wali Allah of Delhi (d. 1762) to examine, first, how these two key facets of Islam interact with each other in his thought and, second, how some influential Muslim intellectuals of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries have understood and positioned themselves in relation to this aspect of his thought. Though one would be hard pressed to know this from the sanitized modern image of Wali Allah as a scholar of the Quran and hadith, and of a Sufi piety uncompromisingly anchored in them, his Sufism reveals a wide and, from many a modern Muslim perspective, unwieldly range of ideas and practices. Yet it was precisely in that unwieldy breadth and depth that it was generative of some of his key insights into matters of the law. Even as many people have continued to insist on the imbrication of law and Sufism, a sanitization of Wali Allah’s Sufi image serves to highlight wider processes whereby an earlier era’s generative relationship between the two has come to be increasingly attenuated since the late nineteenth century.- Reproduced https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/modern-asian-studies/article/law-and-sufism-in-modern-south-asia-a-changing-relationship/F213B8F6226611F7E076709E311A5AEB
650			_aIslamic law, Sufism, Shah Wali Allah. _949386
773			_aModern Asian Studies
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