Islam Before Modernity

This book examines the role of tradition and discursive knowledge transmission on the formation of the ulam, the learned scholarly class in Islam, and their approach to the articulation of the Islamic disciplines. This book argues that a useful framework for evaluating the intellectual contributions of post-classical scholars such as Amad ibn Muammad al-Dardr involves preserving, upholding, and maintaining the Islamic tradition, including the intellectual sub-traditions that came to define it.