Putting a Rope on Tradition
“Traditional Islam is not the replication of the positions of the ancients; it is to seek what they sought”.[1] Introduction During my doctoral research, an ethnography of a Dār al-‘Ulūm (madrasa) in Britain, the notion…
Haroon Sidat is a post-doctoral researcher at the Centre for the Study of Islam in the UK at Cardiff University. His current research is a three-year project looking at the role British Imams play in society. His PhD was an ethnographic study of a British Dar al Uloom and is now being converted into a monograph. His other interests include Islamic law, Sufism, and Maturidi theology.
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