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Seventeenth-Century Poetic Aesthetics: Ibn Maʿṣūm Al-Madanī’s Sulāfat Al-ʿaṣr on Contemporary Poets
(Georgetown University, 2022)The 11th/17th-century Hijazi scholar Ibn Maʿṣūm al-Madanī (d. 1120/1709) wrote a significant later post-classical/pre-modern biographical anthology, Sulāfat al-ʿaṣr fī maḥāsin al-shuʿarāʾ bi-kulli miṣr (Pressing of the ... -
A Salafī (Most) Becoming: The Construction of the Legacy of Muḥammad Sulṭān al-Maʿṣūmī al-Khujandī (1880–1961)
(Georgetown University, 2021)Today, Muḥammad Sulṭān al-Maʿṣūmī al-Khujandī (1880-1961) is only barely remembered as the Saudi author of a popular Salafī tract that came to be known by the title Is a Muslim required to follow a particular madhhab from ... -
Shī‘ī Scholars on Legal Change, Iran's Guardian Council and Expediency Discernment Council (Majma‘ Tashkhīṣ Maṣlahat Niẓām)
(Georgetown University, 2021)This dissertation studies theories of legal change among Shī‘ī jurists and legal scholars as well as institutional legal change in post-1979 Iran. I demonstrate how Shī‘ī legal theorists formulated the theories of Variable ... -
A Salafī (Most) Becoming: The Construction of the Legacy of Muḥammad Sulṭān al-Maʿṣūmī al-Khujandī (1880–1961)
(Georgetown University, 2021)Today, Muḥammad Sulṭān al-Maʿṣūmī al-Khujandī (1880-1961) is only barely remembered as the Saudi author of a popular Salafī tract that came to be known by the title Is a Muslim required to follow a particular madhhab from ...
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