{"title":"Muhammad abu Zahra’s Muslim Theology of Religions","authors":"Mohammed Gamal Abdelnour","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvc77nx4.11","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"‘His publishers call him Imam, ranking him with the great figures of Islamic scholarship of the past, such as Abu Haneefah, Malik, Al-Shafie and Ibn Taimiyah. Indeed, he has a great affinity with all these, as we will presently explain. If we consider this title on the basis of its linguistic meaning, which is a leader who shows the way, then he certainly was an Imam. And if we take it to mean a scholar of broad and varied knowledge, then he was certainly an Imam.’ Excerpt from an article in Arab News1","PeriodicalId":106577,"journal":{"name":"Religious Imaginations","volume":"38 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2018-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Religious Imaginations","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvc77nx4.11","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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‘His publishers call him Imam, ranking him with the great figures of Islamic scholarship of the past, such as Abu Haneefah, Malik, Al-Shafie and Ibn Taimiyah. Indeed, he has a great affinity with all these, as we will presently explain. If we consider this title on the basis of its linguistic meaning, which is a leader who shows the way, then he certainly was an Imam. And if we take it to mean a scholar of broad and varied knowledge, then he was certainly an Imam.’ Excerpt from an article in Arab News1