Abdullah Chakralawi

Abdullah Chakralawi (d. 1916) was a Quranist scholar. He founded the community of the Ahl aḏ-Ḏhikr wa-l-Qurʾān (Ahl al-Qurʾān for short) in Lahore. He was convinced that the Qur'an was so comprehensive that it was sufficient as a divine source for the guidance of Muslims, and therefore the rest of the written tradition, including the Hadiths and earlier Quranic commentaries, could be excluded.Qasmi, Questioning the Authority of the Past, 2012, pp. 125–126. Thus, Chakralawi and his followers, in contrast to their predecessors, rejected the Hadiths as a wholeRahman, Modernist Muslim’s Approach to Ḥadīth, 1993, p. 21. recognising only the Qur'an as an authoritative and valid source on theological and ritual issues, and breaking away from classical exegetical methods.Öztürk, Modern Döneme Özgü Bir Kur’an Tasavvuru, 2010, pp. 20–21. Between 1903 and 1932, they also published the journal Ishāʿat al-Qurʾān.Qasmi, Questioning the Authority of the Past, 2012, p. 131.

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