From Ottoman Ḥanbalīs to Reformist Wahhābīs KU Leuven
This project inquires into the scholarly tradition of Ottoman Ḥanbalism during the 16th and 17th centuries and its intellectual connection to the Salafī movements of Islamic revival and reform which arose in the 18th- and 19th-century Muslim world. Theological developments within 16th- and 17th-century Ḥanbalī circles are surprisingly poorly documented and studied within the field of Ḥanbalī studies, despite the fact that during this very ...