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and largest sites on Iman, Islam, Ihsan,” “Allah.com from Chicago, the land of
Muhammad Ali, Da Bulls, Mayor Richard Daley, who votes against any war.
Take a virtual tour of Chicago.”36 At the same time, Ahmad also began to experiment
with new formats. On Oct. 28, 2007, he uploaded two short ‘video’ lectures
(which besides the audio only contain a few still images) to Google Video.
This was followed on March 28, 2008, by a proper video showing al-Ghumari
together with Ahmad Darwish.37 Apart from these novel formats, he continued
to offer and expand on translations (not least, works by Ghazali), and very clearly
positioned himself against the Wahhabi followers of “Ibn Taymia’s Monkey
Business in Faith”: “700 years after the Prophet a man came to change all the
faith of Islam and start spiritual and metarial [sic] terrorism!”38 He lined himself
up with like-minded defenders of a traditionalist understanding of Islam based
on the four established Sunni schools of law (madhhabs), of Prophetic piety, and
others who oppose what they regard as militant and extremist deviation from the
true faith: !asanayn Makhluf (Egyptian state jurisconsultant [mufti] in the 1940s
and 1950s), Mu"ammad Mitwalli al-Sharawi (1911–1998), Egypt’s most famous
twentieth-century TV preacher, "Abd al-!alim Ma"mud (1910–1978, shaykh
al-Azhar 1973–1978), A"mad al-"Alawi (1869–1934), Sufi shaykh and teacher
of several European Traditionalists, René Guénon (1886–1951), the father of
Muhammad Ali, Da Bulls, Mayor Richard Daley, who votes against any war.
Take a virtual tour of Chicago.”36 At the same time, Ahmad also began to experiment
with new formats. On Oct. 28, 2007, he uploaded two short ‘video’ lectures
(which besides the audio only contain a few still images) to Google Video.
This was followed on March 28, 2008, by a proper video showing al-Ghumari
together with Ahmad Darwish.37 Apart from these novel formats, he continued
to offer and expand on translations (not least, works by Ghazali), and very clearly
positioned himself against the Wahhabi followers of “Ibn Taymia’s Monkey
Business in Faith”: “700 years after the Prophet a man came to change all the
faith of Islam and start spiritual and metarial [sic] terrorism!”38 He lined himself
up with like-minded defenders of a traditionalist understanding of Islam based
on the four established Sunni schools of law (madhhabs), of Prophetic piety, and
others who oppose what they regard as militant and extremist deviation from the
true faith: !asanayn Makhluf (Egyptian state jurisconsultant [mufti] in the 1940s
and 1950s), Mu"ammad Mitwalli al-Sharawi (1911–1998), Egypt’s most famous
twentieth-century TV preacher, "Abd al-!alim Ma"mud (1910–1978, shaykh
al-Azhar 1973–1978), A"mad al-"Alawi (1869–1934), Sufi shaykh and teacher
of several European Traditionalists, René Guénon (1886–1951), the father of