https://islamicinsight.in/index.php/islamicinsight <p><strong> Islamic Insight</strong> is an international, peer-reviewed, cross-disciplinary journal dedicated to publishing original scholarship of exceptional quality on all aspects of Islam and the Muslim world. Inasmuch as it caters for a robust scholarly engagement with Islam in light of cutting-edge developments in the humanities and social sciences, the journal provides a forum for high quality research works that contribute substantively to contemporary discourse in Islamic studies in all its richness and complexities. The journal is particularly keen on articles, research communications, and book reviews that deal with Islam and the Islamic tradition in its many facets and manifestations and that explore perspectives and analytics that straddle disciplines and frontiers of knowledge.</p> <p> </p> Darul Huda Islamic University, Kerala, India en-US ISLAMIC INSIGHT 2581-3269 https://islamicinsight.in/index.php/islamicinsight/article/view/92 <p>This study examines the political theology of Ḥadīth in the<br>writings of the Palestinian-Ottoman scholar Yūsuf al-Nabhānī<br>(1849–1932), focusing on his tract <em>al­Aḥādīth al­Arbaʿīn fī</em><br><em>Wujūb Ṭāʿat Amīr al­Muʾminīn </em>(Forty Hadiths on the<br>Obligation to Obey the Ruler), composed in 1312/1895.<br>Situated in the political turbulence of the late Ottoman<br>Caliphate, the work reasserts traditional Sunni doctrines of<br>obedience and political unity at a time when reformist, Salafi,<br>and colonial forces threatened both the caliphate and its moral<br>authority. Through a close reading of the collection, this article<br>argues that al-Nabhānī deployed the Prophetic tradition as a<br>medium of political legitimacy, constructing a theological<br>defense of Sultan ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd II’s rule and the Ottoman<br>Caliphate as divinely sanctioned institutions. His work also<br>represents a religious counter-discourse to modernist<br>reinterpretations of Islam and to secular nationalism advanced<br>by the Young Turks. The analysis reveals how Hadith—beyond<br>its devotional and legal dimensions—functioned as a living<br>source of political thought, moral order, and social cohesion in<br>the late nineteenth-century Muslim world.</p> Salahudheen Kozhithodi Arshad Korangattil Copyright (c) 2025 ISLAMIC INSIGHT 2025-10-23 2025-10-23 8 2