Abstract

This article presents a detailed study of the Ahl-i-Hadith movement in Pakistan and shows how its scholars continue to rely heavily on religious discourses and texts produced by official Saudi Salafi scholars. The authors illustrates this by showing how Pakistani Ahl-i-Hadith scholars actively refer to the fatwas issued by Saudi scholars. Further, based on interviews with both senior and younger scholars, they show that most of them, while somewhat troubled by the changes occurring within Saudi Arabia, are inclined to follow whatever direction the Saudi religious establishment adopts. Thus, in the view of the authors, social liberation within Saudi Arabia will trigger similar changes in attitude within this movement. The article, however, also highlights the need to recognize that the Ahl-i-Hadith movement represents a very small, though influential, group within the broader Pakistani religious sphere, which is dominated by Deobandi and Barelvi networks. Thus, it should not be assumed that the existence of Salafi groups in a country means that Salafism constitutes the dominant Islamic force in that context.

摘要

本文详细研究了巴基斯坦的 Ahl-i-Hadith 运动，并展示了其学者如何继续严重依赖沙特萨拉菲官方学者制作的宗教话语和文本。作者通过展示巴基斯坦 Ahl-i-Hadith 学者如何积极参考沙特学者发布的教令来说明这一点。此外，根据对资深和年轻学者的采访，他们表明，他们中的大多数人虽然对沙特阿拉伯内部发生的变化有些不安，但倾向于遵循沙特宗教机构所采取的任何方向。因此，在作者看来，沙特阿拉伯内部的社会解放将引发这场运动中态度的类似变化。然而，这篇文章也强调需要认识到，Ahl-i-Hadith 运动代表了一个非常小的、尽管有影响力，但在更广泛的巴基斯坦宗教领域内的团体，由 Deobandi 和 Barelvi 网络主导。因此，不应假定一个国家存在萨拉菲派团体意味着萨拉菲派在该背景下构成了主导的伊斯兰力量。