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[NYU Kevorkian Center] Silsila: Yusuf al-Nabhani and Conservative Modernity in the Late Ottoman Period
March 5, 2021 @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm EST
YUSUF AL-NABHANI AND CONSERVATIVE MODERNITY IN THE LATE OTTOMAN PERIOD
The reaction to both sets of reformers on the part of those Muslim scholars and thinkers who espoused the principle of taqlid, the need to follow established convention and tradition, has attracted far less attention. Many such thinkers were also sufis who promoted and supported material forms of devotional practice, including shrine visitation and respect for relics. Often dismissed as conservatives at odds with modernization (if not modernity), in fact these traditionalists often negotiated a de facto middle ground between the status quo and radical reform.
This panel considers the life and thought of one of these conservative thinkers, Yusuf al-Nabhani (d. 1849-1932). Born in Palestine, al-Nabhani was a Sunni scholar and sufi who promoted devotion to the Prophet Muhammad. A passionate supporter of the Ottoman caliphate, a scholar and judge, al-Nabhani was a fierce opponent of the reformist trends that sought to shape the world that he inhabited. The panel seeks to acknowledge the role that visions of ‘conservative modernity’ such as al-Nabhani’s played in the intellectual and religious life of late Ottoman Palestine and Syria, and the impact that they had in regions far beyond, from Anatolia and Arabia to East and North Africa.
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