Early Islamic legal theory : the Risāla of Muḥammad ibn Idrīs al-Shāfiʻī /

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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Main Author: Lowry, Joseph E.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007.

Series: Studies in Islamic Law and Society 30.
Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2007, ISBN: 9789004223028.

Subjects:

Šāfiʻī, Abū-ʻAbdallāh Muḥammad Ibn-Idrīs aš.
Shāfiʻī, Muḥammad ibn Idrīs, > 767 or 8-820. > Risālah fī uṣūl al-fiqh.
aš.
Islam.
Recht.
Schafiiten.
Islamic law > Interpretation and construction > Early works to 1800.

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Call Number: KBP440.62.S53 L69 2007

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Materials /
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  • Introduction /
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  • Chapter One. Shāfi῾ī's Concept of the Bayān /
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  • Chapter Two. Hermeneutical Techniques /
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  • Chapter Three. Prophetic Sunna and Hadith in the Risāla /
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  • Chapter Four. The Qur'an in Shāfi῾ī's Risāla /
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  • Chapter Five. Shāfi῾ī's Epistemology /
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  • Chapter Six. Internal Evidence for the Risāla's Polemical Context /
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  • Chapter Seven. Ijmā῾ in the Risāla /
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  • Conclusion The Risāla and its Relationship to Mature Uṣūl al-Fiqh /
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  • Appendix /
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  • Bibliography /
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  • Indices /
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