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Wahhabi and Salafi version of Sunni thought as epitomized by the influential
Shaykh Na#ir al-Din al-Albani (1914–1999), and was ready to cooperate with
the Zaydi imam of Yemen on a revision of the Zaydi Shizite Encyclopaedia. He
thus represented a ‘traditionalist’ version of Islamic thinking, one that was more
accommodating of Islam’s legal and mystical heritage than the Wahhabi/Salafi
trend.
It remains unclear how Ahmad Darwish first came to know !Abdallah al-
Ghumari (whether in Cairo or in Sharjah) and what the precise nature of their
relationship was, but when al-Ghumari visited the United States in 1981—
apparently at the invitation of Warith Deen Muhammad (1933–2008), who
steered the black separatist Nation of Islam towards a more ‘orthodox’ understanding
of the faith—Ahmad Darwish was actively involved by helping, i.e., to
put together a collection of “8381” "adiths that were given to Warith Muhammad
in a clear effort to support his “Sunni” reform.10 Whether or not it was al-
Ghumari who inspired Ahmad Darwish to turn to Prophetic Tradition as a key
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source of Islamic revival, Ahmad came to share his basic outlook: one that defends
the centuries-old heritage of Islamic scholarship against ‘fundamentalists’
attacking the scholastic law schools as well as mystical interpretations of Islam.
Shaykh Na#ir al-Din al-Albani (1914–1999), and was ready to cooperate with
the Zaydi imam of Yemen on a revision of the Zaydi Shizite Encyclopaedia. He
thus represented a ‘traditionalist’ version of Islamic thinking, one that was more
accommodating of Islam’s legal and mystical heritage than the Wahhabi/Salafi
trend.
It remains unclear how Ahmad Darwish first came to know !Abdallah al-
Ghumari (whether in Cairo or in Sharjah) and what the precise nature of their
relationship was, but when al-Ghumari visited the United States in 1981—
apparently at the invitation of Warith Deen Muhammad (1933–2008), who
steered the black separatist Nation of Islam towards a more ‘orthodox’ understanding
of the faith—Ahmad Darwish was actively involved by helping, i.e., to
put together a collection of “8381” "adiths that were given to Warith Muhammad
in a clear effort to support his “Sunni” reform.10 Whether or not it was al-
Ghumari who inspired Ahmad Darwish to turn to Prophetic Tradition as a key
112 WEB HISTORY
source of Islamic revival, Ahmad came to share his basic outlook: one that defends
the centuries-old heritage of Islamic scholarship against ‘fundamentalists’
attacking the scholastic law schools as well as mystical interpretations of Islam.