Submitting Campus
Daytona Beach
Department
Humanities & Communication
Document Type
Article
Publication/Presentation Date
2-27-2019
Abstract/Description
Muḥammad Nāṣir al-Dīn al-Albānī (1914–1999) was one of the most influential Salafi scholars in the 20th century. He sought to reform Islam by requiring Muslims to return a puritanical and literalist approach toward scripture. Albānī moved from Albania to Damascus with his family as a child, and his father became a leading Ḥanafī scholar in the Albanian Muslim community in Syria. From a young age, Albānī disagreed with his father and the Albanian Ḥanafī community. He rejected their allegiance to the Ḥanafī school of law and instead advocated a strict adherence to the Qurʾān and Sunna. His scholarly career was full of tug-of-war battles with traditional jurists over the validity of following a madhhab and particular principles of Islamic legal theory. His legal scholarship contains many unconventional opinions, and he was therefore taken most seriously in the field of ḥadīth, not fiqh. A distinctive aspect of Albānī’s legacy is his constant effort to reevaluate the authenticity of ḥadīth. He sifted through thousands of ḥadīths and reevaluated them using traditional ḥadīth methodology.
Publication Title
Oxford Bibliographies in Islamic Studies
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1093/OBO/9780195390155-0263
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Scholarly Commons Citation
Hamdeh, E. (2019). Muḥammad Nāṣir al-Dīn al-Albānī. Oxford Bibliographies in Islamic Studies, (). https://doi.org/10.1093/OBO/9780195390155-0263
