Mujaddid

As Mudschaddid (Arabic مجدد, DMG muǧaddid, renewer ') is referred to a person who is renewed in accordance with an alleged prophetic speech at the beginning of each century Muslim religion of Islam. Over the centuries there have been heated discussions among relevant experts, who should be recognized as an innovator of Islam. Are mentioned under other rulers, lawyers, philosophers and theologians.

In the early modern period, the innovator of earlier centuries were collected several times in lists. So called, for example, Muhammad Qāsim al - Qassar, the most important religious scholars at the court of the Moroccan ruler Ahmad al - Mansur (1578-1603), in a poem, the following individuals as innovators: ʿ Umar ibn ʿ Abd al - ʿ Azeez ( end of the 1st century ), ash- Shafi ʿ ī (2nd century ), Abū l - Ḥasan ʿ al - Asch arī (3rd century ), Al - Bāqillānī and al - Isfarāyinī (4th century ), al -Ghazali (5th century ), Fakhr ad-Din ar - Razi (6th century ), Ibn al - ʿ Eid Daqiq (7th century ), al - Bulqīnī and Abū al -Fadl al - ʿ Iraqi (8th century ), As - Suyuti ( 9th Century. ).

The question of who was the reviver of religion at the end of the 10th Islamic century (the year 1000 of the Hegira corresponds to the year 1591/92 CE), there were in the Islamic world have very different ideas. While al - Qassar its own ruler Ahmad al - Mansur presented as the innovator of his time in another poem and thereby emphasized the prophetic descent, it was thought in Sufi circles of Morocco, Abu l - Mahasin al - Fasi (d. 1604), the founder of the Fāsīyūn known Zawiya in Fes, " the Restorer at the end of the millennium " (al- ʿ mudschaddid alā ra ʾ s al - alf ) is. In Mecca the productive Hanafi scholar Ali al - Kari took the Mudschaddid rank for yourself to complete, and in Indian Naqshbandi circles it was felt around the middle of the 17th century that this rank only to the scholar Ahmad as- Sirhindi (st. 1624) fees. The term Mudschaddid -i alf -i thani ( " reviver of the second millennium ") was an integral title as- Sirhindi.

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