Visions of sharīʻa : contemporary discussions in Shi'i legal theory /

In Visions of Sharīʿa Bhojani, De Rooij and Bohlander present the first broad examination of ways in which legal theory ( uṣūl al-fiqh ) within Twelver Shīʿī thought continues to be a forum for vibrant debates regarding the assumptions, epistemology and hermeneutics of Sharīʿa in contemporary Shīʿī...

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Other Authors: Bhojani, Ali Reza (Editor), De Rooij, Laurens (Editor), Bohlander, Michael, 1962-

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden Boston : BRILL, 2020.

Series: Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste - Abhandlungen beider Klassen; volume117.

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Call Number: KBP350 .V57 2020

Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright page
  • Preface /
  • Ali-Reza Bhojani, Laurens de Rooij and Michael Bohlander
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Visions of Sharīʿa: An Introduction /
  • Ali-Reza Bhojani
  • The Reception of Factuality (taṣwīb) Theories of Ijtihād in Modern Uṣūlī Shīʿī Thought /
  • Seyyed Mostafa Mohaghegh Damad
  • Reassessing the Pivotal Role of Certainty in Modern Shīʿī Uṣūlī Legal Method: A Case for Accepting a Wider Range of Evidence in the Inference of Sharīʿa Precepts /
  • Hashim Bata
  • The Role of the Quran in Legal Reasoning (Ijtihād): A Shīʿī Perspective /
  • Rahim Nobahar
  • From Theory to Practice: The Role of the Subject in the Derivation of Rulings and Its Potential in Creating a System of Case Law for the Operation of Shīʿī Law /
  • Imranali Panjwani
  • Strategic Juristic Omission and the Non-Muslim Blood Price: An Examination of Shīʿī Fiqh and Practice /
  • Haider Ala Hamoudi
  • Towards the Hermeneutics of a Justice-Oriented Reading of Sharīʿa /
  • Ali-Reza Bhojani
  • Maqāṣid al-Sharīʿa Discourse in Contemporary Shīʿī Jurisprudence /
  • Hassan Beloushi
  • Epilogue /
  • Robert Gleave
  • Back Matter
  • al-Sayyid ʿAlī al-Ḥusaynī al-Sīstānī on Uṣūl al-fiqh in Twelver Shīʿī Thought: Its Importance and Historical Phases /
  • Ali-Reza Bhojani
  • Index.