Author : Guy Burak
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 50,71 MB
Release : 2015-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 110709027X
The Second Formation of Islamic Law offers a new periodization of Islamic legal history in the eastern Islamic lands.
Author : Noel Coulson
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 19,48 MB
Release : 2014-03-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 0748696490
The classic introduction to Islamic law, tracing its development from its origins,through the medieval period, to its place in modern Islam.
Author : Wael B. Hallaq
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 44,78 MB
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1351889540
The fourteen studies included in this volume have been chosen to serve several purposes simultaneously. At a basic level, they aim to provide a general - if not wholly systematic - coverage of the emergence and evolution of law during the first three and a half centuries of Islam. On another level, they reflect the different and, at times, widely divergent scholarly approaches to this subject matter. These two levels combined will offer a useful account of the rise of Islamic law not only for students in this field but also for Islamicists who are not specialists in matters of law, comparative legal historians, and others. At the same time, however, and as the Introduction to the work argues, this collection of distinguished contributions illustrates both the achievements and the shortcomings of paradigmatic scholarship on the formative period of Islamic law.
Author : Intisar A. Rabb
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 38,66 MB
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 1107080991
This book considers the rarely studied but pervasive concepts of doubt that medieval Muslim jurists used to resolve problematic criminal cases.
Author : Christopher Melchert
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 21,67 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004109520
Melchert traces the emergence of jurisprudence by h ad th, the personalization of the old regional schools in response, and finally the emergence of the classical, guild schools, with regular means of forming students, in the early tenth century.
Author : Wael B. Hallaq
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 38,72 MB
Release : 2009-07-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 1139489305
The study of Islamic law can be a forbidding prospect for those entering the field for the first time. Wael Hallaq, a leading scholar and practitioner of Islamic law, guides students through the intricacies of the subject in this absorbing introduction. The first half of the book is devoted to a discussion of Islamic law in its pre-modern natural habitat. The second part explains how the law was transformed and ultimately dismantled during the colonial period. In the final chapters, the author charts recent developments and the struggles of the Islamists to negotiate changes which have seen the law emerge as a primarily textual entity focused on fixed punishments and ritual requirements. The book, which includes a chronology, a glossary of key terms, and lists of further reading, will be the first stop for those who wish to understand the fundamentals of Islamic law, its practices and history.
Author : Ahmed El Shamsy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 45,37 MB
Release : 2013-10-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1107041481
Ahmed El Shamsy's The Canonization of Islamic Law is a detailed history of the birth of classical Islamic law. It shows how Islamic law and its institutions emerged out of the canonization of the sacred sources of Quran and Sunna (prophetic practice) in the eighth and ninth centuries CE. The book focuses on the ideas and influence of the jurist al-Shāfiʿī (d. 820 CE), who inaugurated the process of canonization, and it paints a rich picture of the intellectual engagements, political turbulence, and social changes that formed the context of his and his followers' careers.
Author : Behnam Sadeghi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 27,57 MB
Release : 2013-02-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1139789252
This pioneering study examines the process of reasoning in Islamic law. Some of the key questions addressed here include whether sacred law operates differently from secular law, why laws change or stay the same and how different cultural and historical settings impact the development of legal rulings. In order to explore these questions, the author examines the decisions of thirty jurists from the largest legal tradition in Islam: the Hanafi school of law. He traces their rulings on the question of women and communal prayer across a very broad period of time - from the eighth to the eighteenth century - to demonstrate how jurists interpreted the law and reconciled their decisions with the scripture and the sayings of the Prophet. The result is a fascinating overview of how Islamic law has evolved and the thinking behind individual rulings.
Author : Knut S. Vikør
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 45,94 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780195223989
The contrast between religion and law has been continuous throughout Muslim history. Islamic law has always existed in a tension between these two forces: God, who gave the law, and the state--the sultan--representing society and implementing the law. This tension and dynamic have created a very particular history for the law--in how it was formulated and by whom, in its theoretical basis and its actual rules, and in how it was practiced in historical reality from the time of its formation until today. That is the main theme of this book. Knut S. Vikor introduces the development and practice of Islamic law to a wide readership: students, lawyers, and the growing number of those interested in Islamic civilization. He summarizes the main concepts of Islamic jurisprudence; discusses debates concerning the historicity of Islamic sources of dogma and the dating of early Islamic law; describes the classic practice of the law, in the formulation and elaboration of legal rules and practice in the courts; and sets out various substantive legal rules, on such vital matters as the family and economic activity.
Author : Hiroyuki Yanagihashi
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 18,97 MB
Release : 2021-10-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9047413415
The present book is devoted to an analysis of positive solutions concerning matters related to civil liability, certain kinds of sale that would evolve into agency and some forms of partnership, and the prohibition of ribā.
