mujaddid
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A mujaddid ({{langx|ar|مجدد}}) is an Islamic term for one who brings "renewal" ({{langx|ar|تجديد|translit=tajdid|label=none}}) to the religion.{{cite book|last1=Faruqi|first1=Burhan Ahmad|title=The Mujaddid's Conception of Tawhid|date=16 August 2010|page=7|publisher=Lulu.com |isbn=9781446164020|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j7UeAgAAQBAJ|access-date=31 December 2014}}{{cite book|editor1-last=Meri|editor1-first=Josef W.|title=Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia|year=2006|publisher=Psychology Press|page=678|isbn=9780415966900|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H-k9oc9xsuAC}} According to the popular Muslim tradition, it refers to a person who appears at the turn of every century of the Islamic calendar to revitalize Islam, cleansing it of extraneous elements and restoring it to its pristine purity. In contemporary times, a mujaddid is looked upon as the greatest Muslim of a century.{{Cite web|url=http://www.oxfordislamicstudies.com/article/opr/t125/e1590|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180904055850/http://www.oxfordislamicstudies.com/article/opr/t125/e1590|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 4, 2018|title=Mujaddid – Oxford Islamic Studies Online|website=www.oxfordislamicstudies.com|language=en|access-date=2018-09-03}}
The concept is based on a hadith (a saying of Islamic prophet Muhammad),Neal Robinson (2013), Islam: A Concise Introduction, Routledge, {{ISBN|978-0878402243}}, Chapter 7, pp. 85–89 recorded by Abu Dawood, narrated by Abu Hurairah who mentioned that Muhammad said:
{{blockquote|Allah will raise for this community at the end of every 100 years the one who will renovate its religion for it.|sign=|source=Sunan Abu Dawood, Book 37: Kitab al-Malahim [Battles], Hadith Number 4278{{Hadith-usc|abudawud|usc=yes|37|4278}}}}
Ikhtilaf (disagreements) exist among different hadith viewers. Scholars such as Al-Dhahabi and Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani have interpreted that the term mujaddid can also be understood as plural, thus referring to a group of people.Fath al-Baari (13/295)Taareekh al-Islam (23/180)
Mujaddids can include prominent scholars, pious rulers and military commanders.
List of Sunni claimants and potential ''mujaddids''
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| footer = Rulers and conquerors such as Saladin, Tamerlane, Shah Rukh, Mehmed II, Selim I, Suleiman I, Aurangzeb and Tipu Sultan were often popularly heralded as mujaddids for their roles in Political Islam (Saladin, Ottoman's Selim I and Suleiman I held the title of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques).{{cite book|last1=Jackson|first1=Roy|title=Mawlana Mawdudi and Political Islam: Authority and the Islamic State|date=2010|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781136950360}}{{cite book|title=Aurangzeb and Tipu Sultan: Evaluation of Their Religious Policies|author=B. N. Pande|publisher=University of Michigan|year=1996|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FgbXAAAAMAAJ|isbn=9788185220383}}Advocate of Dialogue: Fethullah Gulen by Ali Unal and Alphonse Williams, 10 June 2000; {{ISBN|978-0970437013}}{{cite book |last1=Akgunduz |first1=Ahmed |last2=Ozturk |first2=Said |title=Ottoman History - Misperceptions and Truths |date=2011 |publisher=IUR Press |isbn=978-90-90-26108-9 |page=14 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WKfIAgAAQBAJ&q=ottoman+mujaddid&pg=PA14 |access-date=28 December 2019 |language=en}}Hassan Ahmed Ibrahim, "An Overview of al-Sadiq al-Madhi's Islamic Discourse." Taken from The Blackwell Companion to Contemporary Islamic Thought, p. 172. Ed. Ibrahim Abu-Rabi'. Hoboken: Wiley-Blackwell, 2008. {{ISBN|978-1-4051-7848-8}}}}While there is no formal mechanism for designating a mujaddid in Sunni Islam, there is often a popular consensus. The Shia and Ahmadiyya{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-RfYBgAAQBAJ|title=Religion in Southeast Asia: An Encyclopedia of Faiths and Cultures|date=10 March 2015|publisher=ABC-CLIO, LLC|isbn=9781610692502}}{{Page needed|date=September 2018}}Jesudas M. Athyal, Religion in Southeast Asia: An Encyclopedia of Faiths and Cultures, (ABC-CLIO, LLC 2015), p 1. {{ISBN|9781610692496}}. have their own list of mujaddids.
=First century (after the prophetic period) (August 3, 718)=
=Second century (August 10, 815)=
- Muhammad ibn Idris ash-Shafi`i (767–820){{cite book|last1=Waines|first1=David|title=An Introduction to Islam|date=2003|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=0521539064|page=210}}{{cite book |last=Waliullah|first=Shah|title=Izalatul Khafa'an Khilafatul Khulafa|year= |publisher= |page=77, part 7|isbn= }}{{cite book |last=Nieuwenhuijze|first=C.A.O.van|title=Paradise Lost: Reflections on the Struggle for Authenticity in the Middle East|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=his4f16lUDcC&pg=PA24|year=1997|publisher= BRILL|page=24|isbn=90-04-10672-3}}
- Ahmad ibn Hanbal (780–855)Mohammed M. I. Ghaly, "Writings on Disability in Islam: The 16th Century Polemic on Ibn Fahd's "al-Nukat al-Ziraf"," The Arab Studies Journal, Vol. 13/14, No. 2/1 (Fall 2005/Spring 2006), p. 26, note 98
=Third century (August 17, 912)=
=Fourth Century (August 24, 1009)=
=Fifth century (September 1, 1106)=
- Ibn Hazm (994–1064)The Legal Thought of Jalāl Al-Din Al-Suyūṭī: Authority and Legacy, Page 133 Rebecca Skreslet Hernandez
- Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (1058–1111){{cite news |last= |first= |url=http://www.thepenmagazine.net/imam-ghazali-the-sun-of-the-fifth-century-hujjat-al-islam/|title=Imam Ghazali: The Sun of the Fifth century Hujjat al-Islam|work= |location= |publisher=The Pen|date=February 1, 2011|access-date= }}Jane I. Smith, Islam in America, p 36. {{ISBN|0231519990}}Dhahabi, Siyar, 4.566Willard Gurdon Oxtoby, Oxford University Press, 1996, p 421
- Abdul Qadir Jilani (1078–1166) {{cite journal|last1=Reese |first1=Scott S. |date= 2001 |title= The Best of Guides: Sufi Poetry and Alternate Discourses of Reform in Early Twentieth-Century Somalia|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3181395 |journal=Journal of African Cultural Studies |volume=14 |issue=1 Islamic Religious Poetry in Africa |pages= 49–68|doi=10.1080/136968101750333969 |jstor=3181395 |s2cid=162001423 }}Majmu al-Fatawa, Volume 10, Page 455
=Sixth century (September 9, 1203)=
- Salauddin Ayyubi (1137–1193)Advocate of Dialogue: Fethullah Gulen by Ali Unal and Alphonse Williams, 10 June 2000; {{ISBN|978-0970437013}}
- Ibn Qudamah (1147–1223){{Cite web|title=Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani - SunnahOnline.com|url=https://sunnahonline.com/library/biographies/370-ibn-hajar-al-asqalani|access-date=2022-01-12|website=sunnahonline.com}}
- Muhammad bin Bakhtiyar Khalji (1148–1206)Sufi Movements in Eastern India – Page 194The preaching of Islam: a history of the propagation of the Muslim faith By Sir Thomas Walker Arnold, pp. 227–228
- Fakhr al-Din al-Razi (1149–1210){{cite web |url=http://www.muslimphilosophy.com/ip/rep/H044.htm|title=al-Razi, Fakhr al-Din (1149–1209)|publisher=Muslim Philosophy}}
- Abu al-Qasim al-Rafi'i (1160-1226){{cite book|author=Wael Hallaq|title=Law and Legal Theory in Classical and Medieval Islam|date=23 February 2022|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=9781000585049|page=26}}
=Seventh century (September 15, 1300)=
- Ibn Daqiq al-'Id (1228–1302){{cite book |title=Medieval Islamic Republic of Letters, The: Arabic Knowledge Construction| date=15 April 2015|author=Muhsin J. al-Musawi| publisher=University of Notre Dame Press, Chapter 6 'Disputation in Rhetoric' citation #28|isbn=978-0268020446 }} {{ISBN|978-0268020446}}
- Ibn Taymiyyah (1263–1328)
- Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya (1292–1350)
=Eighth century (September 23, 1397)=
- Siraj al-Din al-Bulqini (1324–1403)
- Tamerlane (Timur) (1336–1405)Hassan Ahmed Ibrahim, "An Overview of al-Sadiq al-Madhi's Islamic Discourse." Taken from The Blackwell Companion to Contemporary Islamic Thought, p. 214. Ed. Ibrahim Abu-Rabi'. Hoboken: Wiley-Blackwell, 2008. {{ISBN|978-1-4051-7848-8}}
- Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani (1372–1448){{cite web|url=http://www.islamic.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Biographies/ibn_hajar.htm|title=Ibn Hajar Al-Asqalani|publisher=Hanafi.co.uk|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040902170858/http://www.islamic.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Biographies/ibn_hajar.htm|archive-date=2004-09-02}}
=Ninth century (October 1, 1494)=
- Shah Rukh (1377–1447)Hassan Ahmed Ibrahim, "An Overview of al-Sadiq al-Madhi's Islamic Discourse." Taken from The Blackwell Companion to Contemporary Islamic Thought, p. 172. Ed. Ibrahim Abu-Rabi'. Hoboken: Wiley-Blackwell, 2008. {{ISBN|978-1-4051-7848-8}}
- Mehmet II (1432–1481)Advocate of Dialogue: Fethullah Gulen by Ali Unal and Alphonse Williams, 10 June 2000; {{ISBN|978-0970437013}}
- Zakariyya al-Ansari (1420-1520){{cite book |last1=Mahrusillah |first1=Mohamad |title=Fiqh Neurostorytelling Tradisi Lisan Pengajaran Fatḥ al-Mu'īn di Banten|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2oidEAAAQBAJ|publisher=Penerbit A-Empat|date=23 November 2022|isbn=9786236289754|page=139}}
- Jalaludin Al-Suyuti (1445–1505){{cite book |last=Azra|first=Azyumardi|title=The Origins of Islamic Reformism in Southeast Asia part of the ASAA Southeast Asia Publications Series|year=2004|publisher=University of Hawaii Press|page=18|isbn=9780824828486}}
=Tenth century (October 19, 1591)=
- Selim I (1470–1520){{cite book |last1=Akgunduz |first1=Ahmed |last2=Ozturk |first2=Said |title=Ottoman History – Misperceptions and Truths |date=2011 |publisher=IUR Press |isbn=978-90-90-26108-9 |page=14 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WKfIAgAAQBAJ&q=ottoman+mujaddid&pg=PA14 |access-date=28 December 2019 |language=en}}
- Suleiman the Magnificent (1494–1566)Transactions of the Royal Historical Society: Volume 12: Sixth Series
By Royal Historical Society
- Shams al-Din al-Ramli (1513-1596){{cite book|last1=Khan|first1=I. K.|title=Islam in Modern Asia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R9UqlsRiNTQC|publisher=MD Publications|date=2006|isbn=9788175330948|pages=87}}
- Ahmad Sirhindi (1564–1624){{cite book |last=Glasse|first=Cyril|title=The New Encyclopedia of Islam|year=1997|publisher=AltaMira Press|page=432|isbn=90-04-10672-3}}
=Eleventh century (October 26, 1688)=
- Khayr al-Din al-Ramli (1585–1671)
- Mahiuddin Aurangzeb Alamgir (1618–1707){{cite journal |last1=Kunju|first1=Saifudheen|url=https://www.academia.edu/592790|title=Shah Waliullah al-Dehlawi: Thoughts and Contributions|date=2012|page=1|access-date=5 April 2015}}
- Abdullah ibn Alawi al-Haddad (1634–1720){{cite web|url=http://www.iqra.net/articles/al-haddad.html|title=A Short Biographical Sketch of Mawlana al-Haddad|publisher=Iqra Islamic Publications|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110527065014/http://www.iqra.net/articles/al-haddad.html|archive-date=2011-05-27}}
=Twelfth century (November 4, 1785)=
- Shah Waliullah Dehlawi (1703–1762)
- Murtaḍá al-Zabīdī (1732–1790)
- Shah Abdul Aziz Delhwi (1745–1823){{cite web|url=http://www.almukhtarbooks.com/?p=63|title=Gyarwee Sharif|publisher=al-mukhtar books|url-status=usurped|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120426051106/http://www.almukhtarbooks.com/?p=63|archive-date=2012-04-26}}
- Tipu Sultan (1750–1799)Muslims and India's freedom movement, Shan Muhammad, Institute of Objective Studies (New Delhi, India), Institute of Objective Studies and the University of Michigan, 2002; {{ISBN|9788185220581}}
- Usman Dan Fodio (1754–1817){{cite book |last=O. Hunwick|first=John|title=African And Islamic Revival in Sudanic Africa: A Journal of Historical Sources|url=http://www.uga.edu/islam/hunwick.html|year=1995|publisher= |page=6|isbn= }}
- Syed Ahmad Barelvi (1786–1831)Ahmad, M. (1975). Saiyid Ahmad barevali: His Life and Mission (No. 93). Lucknow: Academy of Islamic Research and Publications. Page 27.
- Fazl-e-Haq Khairabadi (1796–1861){{cite book|author=Anil Sehgal|title=Ali Sardar Jafri|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kl08TgBBxHIC&pg=PA213|year=2001|publisher=Bharatiya Jnanpith|isbn=978-81-263-0671-8|pages=213–}}
=Thirteenth century (November 14, 1882)=
- Muhammad Abduh (1849–1905)
- Mahmud Hasan Deobandi (1851–1920){{cite news |title=Shaikhul-Hind Mahmood Hasan: symbol of freedom struggle |url=https://www.milligazette.com/news/4-national/13779-shaikhul-hind-mahmood-hasan-symbol-of-freedom-struggle/ |access-date=3 May 2021 |date=12 February 2016}}{{cite book |last1=Adrawi Asir |author1-link=Asir Adrawi |title=Hazrat Shaykh al-Hind: Hayāt awr kārnāme |trans-title=Shaykh al-Hind: Life and works |publisher=Shaykhul Hind Academy |pages=304–305|language=ur}}
- Ahmad Raza Khan (1856–1925) {{cite book |url= https://archive.org/details/islams-reformers|title=Islam's Reformers|date=1 March 2014|author=M.Sıddık Gümüş| publisher=Hakikat Kitabevi|asin=B000BZYZOQ}}{{cite book |url= https://archive.org/details/TheReformerOfTheMuslimWorldByDrMuhammadMasoodAhmad|title=The Reformer Of The Muslim World|date=1995|author= Dr.Muhammad Masood Ahmad |publisher=Al-Mukhtar Publications}}
- Amadou Bamba (1853–1927) {{cite book |url= https://uknowledge.uky.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1012&context=ex-patt|title=The Mourides of Senegal|date=2014|author=Senegal Society and Culture Report. Petaluma, CA: World Trade Press. 2010.| publisher=World Trade Press}}
=Fourteenth century (November 21, 1979)=
- Ashraf Ali Thanwi (1863–1943){{Cite journal|last=Mian|first=Ali Altaf|date=2015|title=Surviving Modernity: Ashraf 'Ali Thanvi (1863–1943) and the Making of Muslim Orthodoxy in Colonial India|url=https://dukespace.lib.duke.edu/dspace/handle/10161/9815|journal=Duke University|language=en}}
- Said Nursî (1878–1960){{cite book |last=Rippin|first=Andrew|title=Muslims: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices|year= |publisher= |page=282|isbn= }}
- Abdul-Rahman al-Sa'di (1889–1957){{Cite journal|last=Smith|first=Van Mitchell|date=September 1974|title=History of West Africa, Vol. 2|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03612759.1974.9946605|journal=History: Reviews of New Books|volume=2|issue=10|pages=251|doi=10.1080/03612759.1974.9946605|issn=0361-2759}}
- Abul A'la Maududi (1903–1979){{cite book |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=I07ykFUoKTUC|title=Mawdudi and the Making of Islamic Revivalism|date=4 January 1996| publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780195357110}}{{page needed|date=October 2021}}
- Murabit al-Hajj (1913 - 2018) {{cite journal|author=Rüdiger Seesemann|title=Sufism in West Africa|journal=Religion Compass |url=https://compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1749-8171.2010.00241.x|year=2010|volume=4 |issue=10 |publisher=Blackwell Publishing Ltd|pages= 606–614|doi=10.1111/j.1749-8171.2010.00241.x }}
- Muhammad 'Alawi al-Maliki (1944–2004) {{Cite news|date=2015-03-02|title=next mujaddid- Syekh Muhammad Alawi al-Maliki, Benteng Sunni Abad ke-21|url=https://republika.co.id/berita/koran/news-update/15/03/02/nkkosb53-next-mujaddid-syekh-muhammad-alawi-almaliki-benteng-sunni-abad-ke21|access-date=2020-06-08|work=Republika (Indonesian newspaper) |language=id}}{{Cite web|last=Jalali|title=Correct Understanding of the Mawlid – 1 {{!}} TAQWA.sg {{!}} Tariqatu-l Arusiyyatu-l Qadiriyyah Worldwide Association (Singapore) - Shari'a, Tariqa, Ma'rifa, and Haqiqa|url=http://taqwa.sg/v/articles/correct-understanding-of-the-mawlid-1/|access-date=2020-06-08|language=en-GB|archive-date=2015-10-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151001110919/http://taqwa.sg/v/articles/correct-understanding-of-the-mawlid-1/|url-status=dead}}
Claimants in other traditions
- Mulla Sadra Shirazi (1571–1640)The Concise Encyclopedia of Islam – Page 286The Fundamental Principles of Mulla Sadra's Transcendent Philosophy by Reza Akbarian
- Syed Ahmad Khan (1817–1898)Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World, Thomson Gale (2004)
- Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (1835–1908)Adil Hussain Khan, [https://books.google.com/books?id=C2DxBwAAQBAJ From Sufism to Ahmadiyya: A Muslim Minority Movement in South Asia], Indiana University Press, 6 April 2015, p. 42.{{cite book | title=Prophecy Continuous: Aspects of Ahmadi Religious Thought and Its Medieval Background | author=Friedmann, Yohanan | year=2003 | publisher=Oxford University Press | page=107 | isbn=965-264-014-X}}{{refn|Mirza Ghulam Ahmad is the founder of the Ahmadiyya sect. The Sunni-Shia mainstream and the majority of Muslims reject the Ahmadiyya sect as it believes in non-law bearing prophethood after Muhammad.}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.oxfordislamicstudies.com/article/opr/t125/e85|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100723084336/http://www.oxfordislamicstudies.com/article/opr/t125/e85|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 23, 2010|title=Ahmadis - Oxford Islamic Studies Online|website=www.oxfordislamicstudies.com|language=en|access-date=2018-09-03|quote=Controversial messianic movement founded by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad in Qadian, Punjab (British-controlled India), in 1889. Founder claimed to be a “nonlegislating” prophet (thus not in opposition to the mainstream belief in the finality of Muhammad's “legislative” prophecy) with a divine mandate for the revival and renewal of Islam.}}
References
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Further reading
- Alvi, Sajida S. "The Mujaddid and Tajdīd Traditions in the Indian Subcontinent: An Historical Overview" ("Hindistan’da Mucaddid ve Tacdîd geleneği: Tarihî bir bakış"). Journal of Turkish Studies 18 (1994): 1–15.
- Friedmann, Yohanan. Shaykh Ahmad Sirhindi: An Outline of His Thought and a Study of His Image in the Eyes of Posterity. Oxford India Paperbacks
External links
- [http://www.islamimehfil.com/topic/10135-concept-of-revivalist-mujaddid-in-islam/ Islami Mehfil, Concept Of Revivalist (Mujaddid) In Islam]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20160325134037/http://www.at-tawhid.net/article-commentaire-du-hadith-sur-les-mujaddid-shah-waliyu-llah-79827012.html Shah Waliyu Llah about the Mujaddids] {{in lang|fr}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20161018210742/http://www.at-tawhid.net/article-l-avis-du-hafiz-adh-dhahabi-sur-les-mujaddidin-des-7-premiers-siecles-98746921.html Al Hafiz Adh Dhahabi about the Mujaddids] {{in lang|fr}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20140814213206/http://khilafatbook.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/thebook.pdf Brief Introduction to the Concept of Mujaddidiyyat in Islam] {{in lang|ur}}
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