Comparative study of the term “bid‘a” (“innovation in religion”) by Shihab al-Din al-Marjani and Abu Ishaq al-Shatibi
https://doi.org/10.31162/2618-9569-2022-15-1-89-99
Abstract
This article is a study of the term “bid‘a” (“innovation in religion”) by the Tatar theologian Shihab al-Din al-Marjani (1818–1889) based on his work “al-Barq al-wamidh ‘ala al-baghidh al-musamma bi-l-naqidh” (“Flash of lightning in response to the hated, named as the enemy”) and the Andalusian jurist Abu Ishaq al-Shatibi (d. 1388) on the material of his work “al-I‘tisam” (“Strong hold [on the Quran and Sunnah]”). Discussions around this term continue in modern Islamic discourse, so it is important to study the approach of a representative of the Tatar theological thought in comparison with the understanding of the author of a classic work devoted to innovations in Islam. The very fact of the condemnation of religious innovation is not questioned by any of the theologians, but disagreements regarding its defi nition, the admissibility of dividing innovations into categories, are among the central problems of Islamic theological discourse.
About the Authors
D. A. Shagaviev
Russian Islamic Institute;
Bolgar Islamic Academy
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Damir A. Shagaviev, Docent, Сand. Sci. (History), Head of the Department of Religious Disciplines in Kazan Islamic University; Associate Professor at the Department of Systematic Theology of Russian Islamic Institute; Research Fellow at the Centre of Islamic Heritage of Bolgar Islamic Academy
Kazan , Bolgar
I. R. Sabanchin
Bolgar Islamic Academy
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Ilgam R. Sabanchin, postgraduate student
Bolgar
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Review
For citations:
Shagaviev D.A., Sabanchin I.R. Comparative study of the term “bid‘a” (“innovation in religion”) by Shihab al-Din al-Marjani and Abu Ishaq al-Shatibi. Minbar. Islamic Studies. 2022;15(1):89-99. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.31162/2618-9569-2022-15-1-89-99
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