Shah Waliyullah Dihlavi

Shah Waliyullah Dihlavi (17031762) was a highly renowned and influential scholar of Islam who produced foundational works on the Quran, Islamic law and jurisprudence, Sufism, philosophy, and politics. He sought to reconcile seemingly competing strands of Muslim intellectual thought and practice, pursuing a cosmopolitan Islam marked not by dogmatism and finality but by debate and hermeneutical flex...