Islamic law in theory : studies on jurisprudence in honor of Bernard Weiss /

Islamic law in theory : studies on jurisprudence in honor of Bernard Weiss /

The contributions of Bernard Weiss to the study of the principles of jurisprudence (uṣūl al-fiqh) are recognized in a series of contributions on Islamic legal theory. These thirteen chapters study a range of Islamic texts and employ contemporary legal, religious, and hermeneutical theory to study th...

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Other Authors: Reinhart, Kevin., Gleave, R., Sluglett, Peter., Weiss, Bernard G.

Format: eBook

Language: English
French

Published: Leiden : Brill, 2014.

Series: Studies in Islamic Law and Society 37.
Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2014, ISBN: 9789004262485.

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Islamic law.

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Call Number: KBP144 .I85 2014

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • The Spirit of Islamic Law: Introduction /
  • Robert Gleave and A. Kevin Reinhart
  • The Wisdom of God's Law: Two Theories /
  • Ahmed El Shamsy
  • La notion de wajh al-ḥikmah dans les uṣūl al-fiqh d'Abū Isḥāq al-Shīrāzī (m. 476/1083) /
  • Éric Chaumont
  • Ritual Action and Practical Action: The Incomprehensibility of Muslim Devotional Action /
  • A. Kevin Reinhart
  • "Istafti qalbaka wa in aftāka al-nasu wa aftūka": The Ethical Obligations of the Muqallid between Autonomy and Trust /
  • Mohammad Fadel
  • Saḥnūn's Mudawwanah and the Piety of the "Sharīʿah-minded" /
  • Jonathan E. Brockopp
  • Sins, Expiation and Non-rationality in Ḥanafī and Shāfiʿī fiqh /
  • Christian Lange
  • Jurists' Responses to Popular Devotional Practices in Medieval Islam /
  • Raquel M. Ukeles
  • Finding God and Humanity in Language: Islamic Legal Assessments as the Meeting Point of the Divine and Human /
  • Paul R. Powers
  • Literal Meaning and Interpretation in Early Imāmī Law /
  • Robert Gleave
  • "Genres" in the Kitāb al-Luqṭah of Ibn Rushd's Bidāyat al-mujtahid wa-nihāyat al-muqtaṣid /
  • Wolfhart Heinrichs
  • Is There Something Postmodern about Uṣūl Al-Fiqh? Ijmāʿ, Constraint, and Interpretive Communities /
  • Joseph Lowry
  • Body and Spirit of Islamic Law: Madhhab Diversity in Ottoman Documents from the Dakhla Oasis, Egypt /
  • Rudolph Peters
  • Tracing Nuance in Māwardī's al-Aḥkām al-Sulṭāniyyah: Implicit Framing of Constitutional Authority /
  • Frank E. Vogel
  • Index.