Very interesting observations. Fes, Morocco has a tradition in the Maliki Madhab to take an opinion of another madhab to make a situation or custom easier, I don’t believe this is Sheikh Saeed’s intention though. Sheikh Kameli is a giant in scholarship but his Creed is Wahabi and like most people of Qur’an in Morocco he leans in that direction in fiqh as well. You will find many Wahabiyya in Morocco that give lectures from Maliki texts and then say Malik says this, but the Sunnah says this. Personally I think these pseudo Maliki are tolerated because most attendees will go on to be Taymites and followers of Muhammad ibn Abdul Wahab and will eventually burnout. The risky part is, those that don’t burn out can easily fall into dangerous strains of that ideology. With a literacy rate of 77% it would be far more beneficial for Sheikh Saeed to teach beginners texts like al-Akhdari or Murshid al Mu’in and an Athari Aqeedah like Tahawiyya without Ibn Abi al Izz’s Wahabi interpretations.
Thanks a lot for commenting. This is a big debate, whether they are pseudo-Malikis or just Malikis with a more flexible approach. There are similar debates about Shaykh al-Gharyani in Libya as I imagine you know. And I'm planning to get into the question of aqida in the paper - definitely Shaykh al-Kamali seems to have a Salafi aqida as you say.
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Very interesting observations. Fes, Morocco has a tradition in the Maliki Madhab to take an opinion of another madhab to make a situation or custom easier, I don’t believe this is Sheikh Saeed’s intention though. Sheikh Kameli is a giant in scholarship but his Creed is Wahabi and like most people of Qur’an in Morocco he leans in that direction in fiqh as well. You will find many Wahabiyya in Morocco that give lectures from Maliki texts and then say Malik says this, but the Sunnah says this. Personally I think these pseudo Maliki are tolerated because most attendees will go on to be Taymites and followers of Muhammad ibn Abdul Wahab and will eventually burnout. The risky part is, those that don’t burn out can easily fall into dangerous strains of that ideology. With a literacy rate of 77% it would be far more beneficial for Sheikh Saeed to teach beginners texts like al-Akhdari or Murshid al Mu’in and an Athari Aqeedah like Tahawiyya without Ibn Abi al Izz’s Wahabi interpretations.
Thanks a lot for commenting. This is a big debate, whether they are pseudo-Malikis or just Malikis with a more flexible approach. There are similar debates about Shaykh al-Gharyani in Libya as I imagine you know. And I'm planning to get into the question of aqida in the paper - definitely Shaykh al-Kamali seems to have a Salafi aqida as you say.