Early Islamic legal theory : the Risāla of Muḥammad ibn Idrīs al-Shāfiʻī /
The Risāla of al-Shāfiʿī (d. 204/820), the earliest preserved work of Islamic legal theory, has been understood in previous scholarship as either the elaboration of a hierarchy of sources of law (Qurʾān, Sunna, consensus, and analogical reasoning) or an extended defense of the Sunna. Through a caref...
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Language: English
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2007.
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Studies in Islamic Law and Society
30.
Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2007, ISBN: 9789004223028.
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Call Number: KBP440.62.S53 L69 2007
| Summary: | The Risāla of al-Shāfiʿī (d. 204/820), the earliest preserved work of Islamic legal theory, has been understood in previous scholarship as either the elaboration of a hierarchy of sources of law (Qurʾān, Sunna, consensus, and analogical reasoning) or an extended defense of the Sunna. Through a careful rereading of this celebrated text, this book offers a comprehensive reinterpretation of the Risāla , in which Shāfiʿī formulated an all-encompassing hermeneutic that portrays the law as a tightly interlocking structure organized around defined interactions of the Qurʾān and the Sunna. Topics covered include Shāfiʿī's creative account of the law's architectonics, hermeneutical techniques, legal epistemology, relationship to kalām , and the role of consensus ( ijmāʿ ). |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [387]-399) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9789047423898 |
| Access: | Available to subscribing member institutions only. |