RT Article
T1 The Ur-Text of Jadidism: Abū Naṣr Qūrṣāwī’s Irshād and the Historiography of Muslim Modernism in Russia
JF Journal of the economic and social history of the Orient
VO 59
IS 1/2
SP 93
OP 125
A1 Spannaus, Nathan
LA English
PB Brill
YR 2016
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1817465643
AB The conventional historiography of Jadidism begins with Abū l-Naṣr Qūrṣāwī’s (1776-1812) rejection of taqlīd and embrace of ijtihād, which was furthered by Shihāb al-Dīn Marjānī (1818-89), leading to the flowering of Jadidism proper at the beginning of the twentieth century. Beginning in the late 1950s, Qūrṣāwī’s Irshād li-l-ʿibād was put forward by Tatar academics seeking to support the narrative as the specific source of his views on ijtihād. The discussion of ijtihād in this text does not, however, conform to the Jadids’ conception of it, and the attempts to locate Jadidist ideals in it rely on highly anachronistic and specious interpretations. Based on the study of the relevant Soviet historiography and its sources, I argue that this narrative is not supported by the works of Qūrṣāwī or Marjānī but comes ultimately from Jadidist writings from the 1920s.
K1 Modernization
K1 Jadidism
K1 Qūrṣāwī
K1 Tatars
K1 Marjānī
K1 mirasism
K1 Taqlīd
K1 ijtihād
DO 10.1163/15685209-12341394