Zaid hamid shah waliullah biography

Authors

• Shahid Rasheed Department of Sociology, Forman Christian College University (FCCU), Lahore.
• Dr.

  Humaira Ahmad Associate Professor, Department of Islamic Thought and Civilization, University of Management and Technology, Lahore.

Keywords:

Shah Waliullah, Sociology, Muslim Tradition, Social Thought, Social Reconstruction

Abstract

The roots of Muslim sociological tradition in the studies of Qur’ān and Hadith has been traced out by numerous Islamic scholars and researchers.

Quran and Hadith is used as source of Muslim sociological outlook in two ways: Firstly, they invite human beings to ponder over the phenomena around them; and secondly, they give central importance to social world as it is through social world that individual first acquires the basic elements necessary for his i