Neo-traditionalism in Islam in the West

Orthodoxy, Spirituality and Politics

Walaa Quisay (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

344 Seiten

2025
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
9781399502788 (ISBN)

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This book examines the salience of neo-traditionalism in Anglo-American Muslim communities, by tracing the scholarship and impact of the key public pedagogues (shaykhs) associated with this phenomenon – Hamza Yusuf, Abdal Hakim Murad, and Umar Faruq Abd-Allah.

Examining Muslim neo-traditionalist scholars in the West and their community of young seekers of sacred knowledge, Walaa Quisay explores the emerging trend within Anglo-American Islam that emphasises the importance of ‘tradition’. This book focuses on spiritual retreats hosted by three main shaykhs – Hamza Yusuf, Abdal Hakim Murad and Umar Faruq Abd-Allah – to examine how religious authority is formed and affirmed.
Through interviews with seekers who have attended retreats, the author sheds light on how discourses are shaped and practised and analyses how neo-traditionalist shaykhs construct the notion of ‘tradition’ concerning what they perceive to have been lost in modernity. The book highlights the importance of neo-traditionalism in the changing conceptions of religious orthodoxy, religious authority and spirituality for young Muslims in the West, and Quisay examines the political implications to the shaykhs’ critiques of modernity as it pertains to political quietism, race and gender.

Walaa Quisay is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at The School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh. Previously, she worked at the University of Manchester, the University of Birmingham, and Istanbul Şehir University. She has published extensively on neo-traditionalism and is currently working on carceral theologies. This will be her first monograph.

Acknowledgments

Foreword by Professor Hasan al-Shafi’i

Introduction

STORIES OF DISENCHANTMENT

1 Locating the (Neo-)Traditional

2 Modern Times

PLACES OF RE-ENCHANTMENT

3 Travelers to Tradition

4 Formation of Authority and Conditions of Plausibility

5 The Metaphysical Lens

6 Race, Gender, and Belonging

LOCATING NEO-TRADITIONALISM IN MODERNITY

7 The Sufi, the Palace, and the People

8 The Seekers, Politics, and Power

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	06.05.2025
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
ISBN-13	9781399502788 / 9781399502788
Zustand	Neuware