Islam, Alcohol, and Identity: Towards a Critical Muslim Studies Approach

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Author(s): Mustapha Sheikh , Tajul Islam

Publication date (Print): Spring 2018

Journal: ReOrient

Publisher: Pluto Journals

Keywords: khamr , nabīdh , Ḥanafis, madhhab , ontic, ontological, intoxication, Barelvi, Deobandi

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Framed in a critical Muslim studies approach, this article offers a new understanding of the Ḥanafī position on alcohol, following major public debates on the question of alcohol sparked by prominent members of Al-Azhar University (Egypt) in 2012. Close textual analysis of a range of primary sources in Arabic and Urdu are foundational to the article, as are the categorisation and contextualisation of Ḥanafī discourse. This is all but a starting point, however, for an argument that constitutes a radical break from conventional Islamic studies, seen as “normal science,” in its critique of hegemonic discourses which have essentialised Islam on the basis of specific ontic manifestations, such as the prohibition of alcohol.

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Publication date (Print): Spring 2018

Volume: 3

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Pages: 185-211

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[1] Ahmed, S. (2016) What is Islam? The Importance of Being Islamic . Princeton: Princeton University Press.

[2] Al-Kāsānī. 2003. Badā'ic al-ṣanā'ic . Beirut: Dar al-Kotob al-Ilmiyah.

[3] Al-ͨUthmānī, Ṣ. A. (1997) Iͨlā’ al-Sunan . Beirut: Dar al-Kotob al-Ilmiyah.

[4] Al-Marghinānī. (1999) Al-Hidāya sharḥ Bidāyat al-mubtadi. 2 volumes. Beirut: Dār al-Arqam bin Abī al-Arqam.

[5] Al-Rāzī, F. A. (2000) Al-Tafsīr al-Kabīr . Beirut: Dar al-Kotob al-Ilmiyah.

[6] Al-Samarqandī. (1995) Tuḥfat al-fuqahā' . 3 volumes. Beirut: Dar al-Kotob al-Ilmiyah.

[7] Al-Sarakhsī. (2000) Kitāb al-mabṣūṭ . 15 volumes. Beirut: Dār al-Fikr.

[8] Al-Shaybānī. (2008) Kitāb al-āthār . Kuwait: Dār al-nawādir.

[9] Al-Taftāzānī. (n.d.) Sharḥ al-ͨAqā'id al-Nasafiyya . Karachi: Qadīmī Kutub Khāna.

[10] Al-Ṭaḥāwī. (2001) Sharḥ maͨānī al-āthār . 4 volumes. Beirut: Dar Al-Kotob Al-ilmiyah.

[11] Ash-Sheikh, S. S. A. (2008) Al-Kutub al-Sittah . 4th ed. Riyadh: Dār al-Salām.

[12] Elder, E. E. (1950) A Commentary on the Creed of Islam: Sa'd al-Dīn al-Taftāzānī on the Creed of Najm al-Dīn al-Nasafī . Translated by E. E. Elder. New York: Columbia University Press.

[13] Haider, N. (2013) Contesting intoxication: Early juristic debates over the lawfulness of alcoholic beverages. Islamic Law and Society . 20, 48–89.

[14] Heine, P. (2012) Nabīdh. In: Bearman, P. et al. (eds) Encyclopaedia of Islam . 2nd ed. Available at http://0-dx.doi.org.wam.leeds.ac.uk/10.1163/1573-3912_islam_SIM_5702 (accessed 20 March 2018).

[15] Ibn ͨābidīn. (2003) Radd al-Muḥtār ͨalā al-Durr al-Mukhtār, Kitāb al-ashriba. Riyadh: Dār ͨAlam al-Kutub.

[16] Ibn Qutayba. (1999) Kitāb al-ashriba wa dhikr ikhtilāf al-nās fī-hā . Beirut: Dār al-Fikr al-Muͨāṣir.

[17] Ibn Rushd. (2000) The Distinguished Jurist's Primer Volume 1: Bidāyat al-Mujtahid . Translated by I. A. Khan Nyazee. Reading: Garnet Publishing.

[18] Islam, T. (2015) Scholastic traditional minimalism: a critical analysis of intra-Sunni sectarian polemics . PhD Thesis. Exeter: University of Exeter.

[19] Jackson, S. (1993) From prophetic actions to constitutional theory: A novel chapter in Medieval Muslim jurisprudence. International Journal of Middle East Studies . 25, 71–90.

[20] Jackson, S. (1996) Islamic Law and the State: The Constitutional Jurisprudence of Shihāb al-Dīn al Qarāfī . Leiden: Brill.

[21] Khan, A. R. (1991) Ajlā al-I'lām in Fatāwā-i-Rizwiyya . Lahore: Riza Foundation.

[22] Lucknowī. (2005) Zād al-Wiqāya . Multan: Idāra-i-Ta'līfāt-i-Ashrafiyya.

[23] Meron, Y. (1969) The development of legal thought in Hanafi texts. Studia Islamica . 30, 73–118.

[24] Niẓām. (2000) Al-Fatāwā al-Hindiyyā al-maͨrūf bi-l-Fatāwā al-ālamgīriyya . 6 volumes. Beirut: Dar al-Kotob al-Ilmiyah.

[25] Qāḍīkhān. (2008) Fatāwā Qāḍīkhān . 3 volumes. Beirut: Dar al-Kotob al-Ilmiyah.

[26] Sadeghi, B. (2013) The Logic of Law Making in Islam: Women and Prayer in the Legal Tradition . New York: Cambridge University Press.

[27] Sayyid, S. (2014) Recalling the Caliphate: Decolonisation and World Order . London: Hurst.

[28] Schacht, J. (1967) The Origins of Muhammadan Jurisprudence . Oxford: Clarendon Press.

[29] Siddiqui, M. (2012) The Good Muslim . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

[30] Yusuf, H. (2007) The Creed of Imam al-Ṭaḥāwī . Berkeley: Zaytuna Institute.

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