تعالج هذه المقالة حياة وفكر أحد كبار علماء المغرب، في القرن العشرين: أبو الفضل عبد الله الغماري )رحمه الله( بعد عرض موجز لسيرته، اشرح آراءه )بما في ذلك من انفراداته واجتهاداته المخالفة لغيره بل تكون أحيانا مخالفة آراء جمهور علماء
اهل السنة( في ثلاثة مجالات: العقيدة، والفقه، والتصوف. واختم بتحليل موجز لمنهجه وماذا يفيدنا ذلك المنهج عن كيفية تعامله مع الحداثة والتراث الإسلامي معا وذلك في ضوء كلام بعض علماء الاجتماع المعاصرين الغربيين.This article studies the life and thought of Abdullah al-Ghumari (d. 1413/1993), an accomplished, yet uncelebrated, Muslim scholar from Morocco. After a brief biographical sketch, I present an overview of his thought (including numerous nonconformist views he held) in the fields of theology, law and Sufism. I proceed to analyze his methodology and what it tells us about his interaction with modernity and the Islamic scholarly tradition. Finally, I draw some more general conclusions about Islam in modernity, in light of the views of contemporary French sociologist Hervieu-Leger. I infer that Ghumari was a nonconformist thinker who leveraged a broad understanding of tradition to remold or revive the tradition from within. The early-modern milieu may have contributed to and facilitated his attempts torestore dynamism to a religious scholarly tradition that had in some ways at least become static or stagnant
