[Oman-L] study on Ibadhism

[Sarah Haworth]

Salaam alykum,

I have just read yiour post with great interest. In the UK I do training in 
Islam Awareness for public sector workers and as I have connections with 
Oman I am keen to make people aware of  Ibadi Islam as well as Shi'a and 
Sunni Islam. We don't actually have many Ibadis resident in the UK except 
Omani students but I feel it's important to educate people on Ibadism as a 
distinct and important part of the Ummah.

I am keen to know more about Ibadi Islam, it would be great to have a web 
site dedicated to Ibadi Islam.

Sarah

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Valerie J. Hoffman" <vhoffman at uiuc.edu>
To: "News and questions about Oman (Sultanate of Oman)" <oman-l at oman.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 4:37 PM
Subject: [Oman-L] study on Ibadhism


>I have done some study on Ibadhism and have published a number of
> articles on the subject. I have also completed a book manuscript
> entitled "The Essentials of Ibadi Islam," which will be published, in
> sha' Allah, by Syracuse University Press. My book is on Ibadi theology,
> not law, but I am unaware of any differences between Ibadi and Sunni
> funerary rites. Regarding eschatology, however, there are some
> significant differences, which the Grand Mufti of Oman, Shaykh Ahmad ibn
> Hamad al-Khalili, defends in his book, "Al-Haqq al-Damigh." The main
> differences are the following:
>
> (1) Ibadis do not take as literally true some of the images pertaining
> to Judgment Day, like the Bridge over hellfire and the weighing of deeds
> in a scale (they say that deeds are "accidents," in the philosophical
> sense, not bodies, and cannot be weighed in a literal sense). Rather,
> they see these as metaphors.
>
> (2) Ibadis do not believe that the Prophet will intercede for sinning
> Muslims, whereas Sunni hadiths say that by virtue of the Prophet's
> intercession, anyone who believes in one God and in the prophethood of
> Muhammad will enter paradise, even if he had committed theft or adultery.
>
> (3) Ibadis do not believe that it will be possible for believers to see
> God in the afterlife, as Sunnis say will occur.
>
> Valerie Hoffman
> Associate Professor
> Program for the Study of Religion
> University of Illinois
> 3080 Foreign Languages Building
> 707 S. Mathews Avenue
> Urbana, IL 61801
> USA
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