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**oxinsnepe** · 04-02-2012, 01:36 AM

when I say the ijma' of the scholars and refer to saudi arabia, I'm saying this, and correct me if I'm wrong, because this is the main point of reference for scholars around the world and that is the point of contribution for scholars around the world (i.e. not only saudi scholars). Ask any reliable scholar and they will tell you that they refer to saudi because that is the defined place for such things.

That's is not true, at all.

Name me one classical institution of knowledge situated in what today is called "Saudi Arabia", except for the Madina university, which has been founded just a few dozens years ago.
The Nizamiyyah? Baghdad, 'Iraq
Al-Azhar? Cairo, Egypt
Darul Uloom? Deoband, India
And many other were in Central Asia, Persia, North Africa, Western Africa, Yemen, etc.

This is not in any way to belittle the Haramayn (audhubiLlah), but rather to show that "Saudi Arabia" isn't and never was THE only center of Islamic knowledge.

It's only Salafis (and ignorant people with inferiority complex) making all this fuss about "Saudi Arabia", and this only because it has been the center of the Salafi Da'wah in the last decades.

04-02-2012, 01:36 AM	#17
oxinsnepe Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 489 Senior Member	when I say the ijma' of the scholars and refer to saudi arabia, I'm saying this, and correct me if I'm wrong, because this is the main point of reference for scholars around the world and that is the point of contribution for scholars around the world (i.e. not only saudi scholars). Ask any reliable scholar and they will tell you that they refer to saudi because that is the defined place for such things. That's is not true, at all. Name me one classical institution of knowledge situated in what today is called "Saudi Arabia", except for the Madina university, which has been founded just a few dozens years ago. The Nizamiyyah? Baghdad, 'Iraq Al-Azhar? Cairo, Egypt Darul Uloom? Deoband, India And many other were in Central Asia, Persia, North Africa, Western Africa, Yemen, etc. This is not in any way to belittle the Haramayn (audhubiLlah), but rather to show that "Saudi Arabia" isn't and never was THE only center of Islamic knowledge. It's only Salafis (and ignorant people with inferiority complex) making all this fuss about "Saudi Arabia", and this only because it has been the center of the Salafi Da'wah in the last decades.
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