Dildar Ali Nasirabadi
Ayatollah Sayyid Dildar Ali Nasirabadi (1752-1820) was a Shiite scholar from Nasirabad in India in the Raebareli district in Uttar Pradesh .
He stayed for a long time in Iraq , where he studied with prominent scholars in the Shiite centers of Najaf and Karbala , later he continued his studies in Mashhad in Iran . Among his tutors in Iraq were among leading Islamic jurists ( fuqaha ) as Wahid Behbehani (ca. 1705-1791), the successful opponent of the school Achbaris .
After returning to India, he became the first Indian to be recognized as a mujahid . He was instrumental in founding the Usuli school (uṣūliyya / rationalists / origins) of Shiite Islam in Awadh (Oudh) and also in a campaign against Sufism .
His works include Imad al-Islam (عماد الإسلام), written in Arabic , which is a response to anti-Shia arguments as used by Fachr al-Din al-Razi .
literature
- JRI Cole: Roots of North Indian Shi'ism in Iran and Iraq: Religion and State in Awadh, 1722-1859 . Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988 ( The Early Career of Sayyid Dildar Ali Nasirabadi ) ( publishing.cdlib.org )
- Madhu Trivedi: The Making of the Awadh Culture . 2010 ( online excerpt )
- Moojan Momen: An Introduction to Shi'i Islam. The History and Doctrines of Twelver Shi'ism . Yale University Press 1985
Web links
- nasirabadghufraanmaabfoundation.org: Introduction: Syed Dildar Ali Naqvi Nasirabadi (Ghufraan Ma'ab) ( Nasirabad Ghufraanmaab Foundation )
- al-islam.org: Sayyid Dildar 'Ali al-Naqawi al-Nasirabadi
- publishing.cdlib.org
Individual evidence
- ↑ Momen, p. 145
- ↑ cf. Zackery M. Heem: Usuli Shi'ism: The emergence of an Islamic Reform Movement in Early Modern Iraq and Iran . Dissertation (The University of Utah) August 2011 ( Online ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. )
- ↑ Momen, p. 145
- ↑ Madhu Trivedi, p. 94
Dildar Ali Nasirabadi (alternative names of the lemma) |
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Sayyid Dildar 'Ali ibn Muhammad Mu'in al-Naqawi al-Nasirabadi; Dildar Ali Naseerabadi; Syed Dildar Ali Naqvi Nasirabadi; Ghufraan Ma'ab; 'Ali Dildar Nasirabadi; Dildar 'Ali al-Nasirabadi; Ghufran Ma'ab Nasirabadi |
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SURNAME | Nasirabadi, Dildar Ali |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Indian twelve Shiite scholar and Ayatollah |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1752 |
DATE OF DEATH | 1820 |