Revival and Reform in Islam: The Legacy of Muhammad Al-Shawkani - Bernard Haykel - Google Books

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Revival and Reform in Islam is at once an intellectual biography of Muhammad al-Shawkani, and a history of a transitional period in Yemeni history. This was a time when a society dominated by traditional Zaydi Shiism shifted to one characterised instead by…