Yusuf al-Nabhani explained

Yusuf al-Nabhani
Native Name:یوسف النبهاني
Era:19th century
Birth Date:1849
Death Date:1932
Birth Place:Ijzim
Death Place:Beirut
Religion:Islam
Denomination:Sunni
Jurisprudence:Shafi'i
Creed:Ash'ari[1]
Sufi Order:Qadiriyya, Rifa'iyya, Shadhiliyya, Naqshbandiyya, Khalwatiyya, Idrisiyya
Region:The Levant
Influences:Al-Busiri, Muhammad al-Jazuli, Ahmad Zayni Dahlan,
Works:Jami' Karamat al-Awliya' (The Collection of the Karamat of the Saints), Shawahid al-Haqq fi al-Istighatha bi-Sayyid al-Khalq (The Proofs of Truth in the Seeking of the Intercession of the Prophet)[2]

Yusuf bin Ismail bin Yusuf bin Ismail bin Muhammad Nâsir al-Dîn an-Nabhani (1849–1932) born in Ijzim in Palestine, was a Palestinian Sunni Islamic scholar, judge, prolific poet, and defender of the Ottoman Caliphate. He died in Beirut.

Biography

Many of Yusuf al-Nabahani's poems, books, and teachings have remained, but very little is printed about his personal life and activities.

He worked and campaigned against the Wahhabi movement and the reformers in Cairo like Muhammad Abduh and al-Afghani who were changing Sunni Islam. He believed in the law, or Shariah in restricting all Sufi activity, being of the Shafi madhab or thought of Sunni Islam holding a similar stance to al-Ghazali in his later years on Sufism.

His father Ismail al-Nabhani taught him to memorise the Quran at a young age, taught him the sciences of Islamic jurisprudence and then sent him to begin study at the university of al-Azhar Cairo on 16 May 1866 at the age of 17. Yusuf graduated from Al-Azhar in October 1872 at the age of 23 with qualifications from the official cirriculem of al-Azhar and many other qualifications obtained from extra study under multiple Islamic scholars in many of the sciences of the Shariah and its preparatory disciplines.[3]

After he graduated and returned home to Ijzim, he began to hold a number of religious courses in `Akka and his home town of Ijzim. He travelled frequently to Beirut, then Damascus where he met eminent Ulema or Islamic Scholars. Chief among them was the Chief Jurist of Damascus at the time, Mahmud Effendi Hamza with whom he studied the beginning of Sahih al-Bukhari, after which he gave Yusuf a general certificate Ijaza comprising the rest of the Hadith Collections.[3]

Then he headed for Istanbul the capital of the Ottoman Caliphate twice and worked there for several years. He edited the periodical al-Jawâ'ib until it folded. He also proofread the Arabic books that came out of its press. He left the publishers for a new position with the Ottoman Caliphate's government as a judge or Qadi.[3]

He left Istanbul, the first time, for Iraq, to the province of Mosul, then returned to Istanbul. He left a second time in 1300 Hijri when he was appointed Chief Justice of the al-Jaza court in Latakia on the Syro-Palestinian sea-shore. After living there for five years the Ottoman government transferred him to be the grand Mufti, or Chief Justice of al-Quds or Jerusalem. Then he moved to be Chief Justice of Beirut in 1888,[3] although some records point to 1887.[4]

The son of his daughter, Taqiuddin al-Nabhani, was sent by Yusuf to Yusuf's Islamic colleagues & teachers in Cairo at the Al-Azhar university. Taqiuddin later went on to establish the Islamic political group Hizb ut-Tahrir.

His teachers

In addition he named a number of other teachers in his books "Hâdî al-Murîd" and "Jâmi` Karâmât al-Awliyâ".[3]

Books and writings

See also

References

  1. Web site: The Biography of Yusuf al-Nabhani. الموقع التخصصي لدراسات الفكر الوهابي والتيارات السلفية. alwahabiyah.com. ar. https://archive.today/20230426235513/https://www.alwahabiyah.com/ar/Mostabserview/13494. 26 Apr 2023.
  2. Web site: Wahhabism: Understanding the Roots and Role Models of Islamic Extremism. As-Sunnah Foundation of America. sunnah.org. ar. https://archive.today/20230427004518/https://sunnah.org/2008/07/18/wahhabism-roots-islamic-extremism/10/. 27 Apr 2023.
  3. Web site: As-Sunnah Foundation of America . 21 September 2005 . 22 February 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200222194144/http://www.sunnah.org/history/Scholars/al-nabhani.htm . dead .
  4. http://ns1.palestineremembered.com/Haifa/Ijzim/ Welcome To Ijzim

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