Controversies among ahl al-hadith and Hanafis had assumed serious proportions by the time of Wali Allah. Reconciliation of legal schools was a practical, rather than a merely theoretical problem. From the very beginning Wali Allah had ahl al-hadith proclivities and from that standpoint he bitterly denounced Hanafïs for deviating from sunnah. At this stage his basic aim was revival of pristine Shari'ah and reform of Hanafi legal doctrines by making them conform to sunnah. Later on, Wali Allah felt the futility of his intemperate opposition to Hanafi school and combined the aim of unifying the ummah with his original aim. He began to stress increasingly the validity of all schools. As for the hanafî school, he tried to reform its doctrines so as to make it harmonise with sunnah by introducing in it a selective process. Later he further widened the scope of his scheme to embrace all Sunni schools. The method he suggested was that of legal eclecticism and the underlying purpose was to reconcile and amalgamate the schools without destroying their entities.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.108220 |
| Date | January 1968 |
| Creators | Muḥammad, Miʻrāj |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Arts (Institute of Islamic Studies.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 003480143, proquestno: AAIMK03192, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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