Ashraf Ali

A Scholarly Exchange on ‘Difficult’ Narrations on Qira’at and Rasm

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Waqar Akbar Cheema Abstract This write-up presents a translation of scholarly correspondence discussing ‘problematic’ reports related to Qur’anic recitations and the orthography of the Uthmanic Mushafs. It highlights how two senior scholars from early 20th-century India addressed these issues, reflecting traditional Muslim methods of engaging with information from before the codification of the relevant sciences Read more

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Book Review: Answer to Modernism by Ashraf Ali Thanawi

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Answer to Modernism by Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanawi  Translated by Prof. Hasan Askari and Karrar Hussain Published by Maktaba Darul Uloom Karachi (1992) Book Review by Waqar Akbar Cheema The book is a translation of Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanawi‘s (d. 1943) well-known work Al-Intabahāt Al-Mufīdah fī ḥal Al-Ishkālāt Al-Jadīdah by Prof. Hasan Askari (d. 1978)

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The Critique of Criticism: Analysis of Ibn Khaldun’s Objections to the Narrations about al-Mahdi

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Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanwi*[1] Translated and Annotated by Waqar Akbar Cheema Abstract Belief in the advent of Imam al-Mahdi is an important tenet for the vast majority of Muslims across sectarian lines. However, some have come to question the decisiveness of the hadiths concerning the advent of al-Mahdi, especially based on Ibn Khaldun’s arguments in

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