Asma bint Muhammad Mulla Husayn
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Asma bint Muhammad Mulla Husayn is a contemporary Islamic scholar and researcher known for her doctrinal study Ara al-Sawi fi al-Aqida wa al-Suluk (The Views of al-Sawi on Creed and Spiritual Conduct) .
Background and Research
Her full lineage appears as Asma bint Muhammad Tawfiq ibn Barakat Mulla Husayn , and she is also referred to as Asma bint Muhammad Tawfiq Barakat .
Her scholarship focuses on Islamic creed and theological analysis. In her study Ara al-Sawi fi al-Aqida wa al-Suluk, published by Maktabat al-Nafidhah in Giza, she investigated the theological and spiritual doctrines of the late Egyptian Maliki scholar Ahmad al-Sawi . Her analysis examined his adoption of the Ash'ari school of speculative theology (kalam) in doctrinal matters and Sufism in worship and spiritual conduct, discussing and evaluating these stances with textual evidence from the Quran and Sunnah in accordance with the methodology of the early righteous predecessors (al-Salaf al-Salih) .
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Ara al-Sawi fi al-Aqida wa al-Suluk (The Views of al-Sawi on Creed and Spiritual Conduct) is a contemporary doctrinal treatise. It presents a theological and analytical examination of the doctrinal and Sufi views of the late Egyptian Maliki scholar Ahmad al-Sawi (1175–1241 AH / 1761–1825 CE), critiquing them from the standpoint of the early Muslim forebears (al-Salaf al-Salih) and the Sunni tradition.