Mahmud al-Alusi

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Mahmud al-Alusi (born 1802 in Baghdad ; died 1854 ) was a mufti, man of letters and exegete in late 19th century Ottoman Baghdad . The Nisba comes from the village of Ālūs on the west bank of the Euphrates.

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Al-Alusi was born in Baghdad in 1802 . According to tradition, the father came from the lineage of al-Husain ibn ʿAlī and the mother traced her origin to his brother al-Hasan ibn ʿAlī . The family produced numerous well-known personalities. At the age of 30, al-Alusi was appointed the Hanefite Mufti of Baghdad. He held the office for 15 years until he was dismissed due to rumors.

The Islamic legal scholar was the author of an extensive, Sufism- influenced Koran exegesis entitled Rūḥ al-maʿānī , which is widespread among the Hanafis , one of the four legal schools of Sunni Islam . After completion, which took 16 years, al-Alusi went to Istanbul in 1851 to dedicate the work to Sultan Abdülmecid I and to tell him about his unjustified removal. He stayed in Istanbul for about 20 months, was admitted to the Grand Vizier Reşid Pasha and met numerous statesmen, but did not receive an audience with the Sultan. On the way back to Baghdad, al-Alusi fell ill with malaria, a disease with which he had to struggle in the last part of his life. In Baghdad he wrote three other works. Al-Alusi died in Baghdad and was buried in the cemetery in al-Karch.

His son Nu'man al-Alusi (1836–1899) was also a well-known scholar. Mahmud al-Alusi died in 1854.

Works (selection)

  • Rūḥ al-maʿānī (Bulaq editions, 9 volumes 1883-1892 / Beirut, n. D.)

literature

  • Alev Masarwa: Education - Power - Culture. The field of the scholar Abū ṯ-Ṯanāʾ al-Ālūsī (1802-1854) in late Ottoman Baghdad ( Culture, Law and Politics in Muslim Societies , Volume 20). Ergon-Verlag, Würzburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-89913-850-4
  • Rebecca Sauer: Rebellion and Resistance. Politically-Religiously Motivated Violence in the Inner-Islamic Discourse: An Examination of Premodern and Modern Commentaries on the Koran . Ergon-Verlag, Würzburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-95650-002-2 ( table of contents )
  • 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)
  • Itzchak Weismann : Genealogies of Fundamentalism: Salafi Discourse in Nineteenth-Century Baghdad . In: British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies , Vol. 36, No. 2, Aug 2009, pp. 267-280, JSTOR 40593256 .
  • Carl Brockelmann : History of Arabic Literature. Supplementary Volume 2. pp. 785-789. Brill, Leipzig 1938.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On other works from the category of tafsir bi-r-ra'i , cf. Ahmad von Denffer : Ulum al-Qur'an. Introduction to Koran Studies 2005, p. 162; islamicbulletin.org (PDF)
personal data
SURNAME Alusi, Mahmud al-
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Shihāb ad-Dīn al-Ālūsī; Abu t-Tana al-Alusis; Maḥmūd al-Ālūsī; Mahmud Alusi; Shihab al-Din Mahmud Alusi; Shihabal-Din Muhammad al-Alusi al-Baghdadi; Abū ṯ-Ṯanāʾ al-Ālūsī; Shihab al-Din Muhammad al-Alusi al-Baghdadi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Islamic legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH 1802
PLACE OF BIRTH Baghdad
DATE OF DEATH 1854