The Impact of Orientalists on Ghāmidī’s Theories

Jāved Ahmad Ghāmidī is a prominent scholar of Farāhī- Islāhī School of thought, his works welcomed in the contemporary literate class of Indo-Pak subcontinent due to his unorthodox approach to Islam. The superficial study of Jāved Ahmad Ghāmidī reveals that he quenched his theories from the classical Islamic Sources and did not refer to the Modern European Scholarship, which shows that every theory cognate to him and based on his research.However, the profound comparative study of Ghāmidī piece of work shows that he studied fundamental theories like “the variant of readings, the sources of the religion, the division of Prophetic hadith, and reproval on the essential narrators of hadith” on the methodology of Orientalists. This study contains some instances from Jāved Ahmad Ghāmidī theories and on its roots that prove who introduced these theories and how Ghāmidī developed it.

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Ghāmidī Orientalists, Variant readings, Sources, Religion, Hadith

The Impact of Orientalists on Ghāmidī’s Theories

Jāved Ahmad Ghāmidī is a prominent scholar of Farāhī- Islāhī School of thought, his works welcomed in the contemporary literate class of Indo-Pak subcontinent due to his unorthodox approach to Islam. The superficial study of Jāved Ahmad Ghāmidī reveals that he quenched his theories from the classical Islamic Sources and did not refer to the Modern European Scholarship, which shows that every theory cognate to him and based on his research. However, the profound comparative study of Ghāmidī piece of work shows that he studied fundamental theories like “the variant of readings, the sources of the religion, the division of Prophetic hadith, and reproval on the essential narrators of hadith” on the methodology of Orientalists. This study contains some instances from Jāved Ahmad Ghāmidī theories and on its roots that prove who introduced these theories and how Ghāmidī developed it.

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Ghāmidī Orientalists, Variant readings, Sources, , Religion, , Hadith,

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