Jamal ad-Din al-Qasimi

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Jamal ad-Din al-Qasimi ( Arabic جمال الدين القاسمي, DMG Ǧamāl ad-Dīn al-Qāsimī ; born October 1, 1866 , Damascus ; died April 18, 1914 ) was a Syrian-Arab Islamic scholar and "reformer".

He was a leading figure in the Salafist movement of the early 20th century. He preached at the Sinan Pasha Mosque in Damascus and is the author of numerous religious treatises, including his book irschad al-chalq .

He is the son of an Islamic legal scholar and has devoted himself to studying the Koran since childhood . Like Tāhir al-Jazā'irī (1852–1920), al-Qasimi was a student of Abd ar-Razzaq al-Bitar (d. 1917), who attended the Salafist school of Damascus (Damascene Salafiyya) in the second half of the 19th century . Century had coined. He was involved in religious education in what is now Syria , Lebanon , Jordan and Palestine . His ideas were attacked by the more conservative ulema and he faced persecution, as a result he distanced himself from active public activities and dealt only with dogmatic issues. He is the author of many religious treatises. His Koran exegesis ( Tafsīr al-Qāsimī ) was edited by Muhammad Fu'ad Abdul-Baqi .

literature

  • Itzchak Weismann : Taste of Modernity: Sufism, Salafiyya, and Arabism in Late Ottoman Damascus . Leiden, Brill 2001, ISBN 90-04-11908-6
  • Itzchak Weismann, "The Salafiyya in the 19th century as a forerunner of modern Salafism", in: Thorsten Gerald Schneiders : Salafism in Germany: Origins and dangers of an Islamic fundamentalist movement . 2014 ( partial view in Google Book Search)
  • Charles Kurzman : Modernist Islam, 1840-1940: A Sourcebook . 2002 ( partial view in the Google book search)
  • Mathieu Guidère: Historical Dictionary of Islamic Fundamentalism. 2012 ( partial view in Google Book Search)
  • David Commins, David W. Lesch: Historical Dictionary of Syria. 2013 ( partial online view )
  • David Grafton: The Christians of Lebanon: Political Rights in Islamic Law (Tauris Academic Studies). 2004 ( partial view in the Google book search)
  • Rüdiger Lohlker : The Salafists: The uprising of the pious, Saudi Arabia and Islam. 2017 ( partial view in Google Book Search)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Translated from the Arabic with an introduction by David D. Commins in: Charles Kurzman (2002: 181 ff. ).
  2. ^ David Commins: Historical Dictionary of Syria . 1996, p. 183
  3. ↑ GND 1053991592 (see book trade link )
personal data
SURNAME Qasimi, Jamal ad-Din al-
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jamal al-Din al-Qasimi; Jamal al-Din al-Qasimi; Jamal al-Din Qasim; Jamal al-Din al-Qasimi; Ǧamāl-ad-Dīn al-Qāsimī; جمال الدين القاسمي; Jamal al-Dîn al-Kasimi; Jamāl al-Dīn al-Qāsimī; Jamal al Din al-Qasimi; Jamal al-din Mohammad bin Mohammad al-Qasimi; Jamal al-Din al-Qasimi; Jamal ad-Din al-Qasimi; Jamal al-Din Qasimi; Muḥammad Jamāl al-Dīn al-Qāsimī; Muḥammad Jamāl al-Dīn al-Qāsimī; Shaykh Jamal al-Deen al-Qasimi; Muḥammad Jamāl al-Dīn Qāsimī; Shaykh Jamal al-Deen al-Qasimi; Jamal al-din Mohammad bin Mohammad al-Qasimi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Syrian Arab Salafist
DATE OF BIRTH October 1, 1866
DATE OF DEATH April 18, 1914