Many of us today look at our contemporary Ulama and religious institutions, and wonder why is this "𝐑𝐞𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐈𝐧 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐐𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲" compared to those of the past? Hallaq explains that the biggest reason behind it is the colonial venture of the Muslim world, by
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the West. The colonialists carried out a large scale successful structural genocide of the Muslim world with particular focus on thought, politics and education, and replaced it with modern one, leaving Islamic scholars and institutions like a tree without roots or a fish
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without pond, that will never be able to fooster properly or die. Those great scholars were products of a certain kind of thought, structure and psychoepistemology which ceased to exist or are present in shimmering terms.
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The last of the great Islamic scholars who, in quality, resembled those of the past, were Hanafi Jurist Ibn Abidin (1836 AD) and Shafi Jurist Bajuri (1860 AD).
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