Regulative Verses of the Qurʾan : From Historical Trends to Contemporary Trajectories /

Regulative Verses of the Qurʾan : From Historical Trends to Contemporary Trajectories /

Why does the Qurʾan contain legal verses, and how have scholars interpreted them across the centuries? Regulative Verses of the Qurʾan offers a comprehensive study of how Islamic law emerged from scriptural interpretation, by exploring the nature of law in the Qur'an itself and in Islamic thoug...

Full description

Saved in:

Other Authors: Bauer, Karen (Editor), Fatemi, Seyed Mohammad Ghari S. (Editor), Gleave, Robert (Editor), Stewart, Devin J. (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : BRILL, 2026.

Series: Al-Mahdi Institute ; 1.
Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2026.

Subjects:

Middle East and Islamic Studies.
Philosophy, Theology & Science.
Islamic Law.

Online Access: Login to view Source

Tags: Add Tag

No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!

Call Number: BP163

Save to List Photographic Request Become a member
Table of Contents:
  • List Figures and Tables IX
  • Introduction: Regulative Verses of the Qurʾan - from Historical Trends to Contemporary Trajectories
  • Seyed Mohammad G.S. Fatemi, Karen Bauer, Robert Gleave and Devin J. Stewart
  • Part 1 The Qurʾan, Ethics, and Law
  • 1 Towards a Prehistory of Islamic Law: the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament, and the Qurʾan
  • Holger Zellentin
  • 2 The Place of Divine Law in the Qurʾan's Moral Theology
  • Nicolai Sinai
  • 3 Qurʾanic Morality as Qurʾanic Law
  • Karen Bauer and Feras Hamza
  • 4 The Myth of the Elite Male Addressee and Its Implications for Regulative Verses
  • Abla Hasan
  • 5 On the Universality of the Divine Commands versus the Casuistic Interpretation of the Regulative Verses
  • Gholamreza Aavani
  • Part 2 The Historical Genre of Aḥkām al-Qurʾan
  • 6 Legal Hermeneutics and Religious Authority in Kitāb Aḥkām al - Qurʾān by al-Jaṣṣāṣ al-Rāzī (d. 37/981)
  • Devin J. Stewart
  • 7 The Imāmī Reception of the Qurʾan's Regulative Verses ( Āyāt al - Aḥkām )
  • Seyed Mohammad G.S. Fatemi and Syed Wajee ul-Hasan Shah
  • Part 3 Interpretation of Regulative Verses
  • 8 Āyāt al - Aḥkām in Early Ibāḍī Thought
  • Nora K. Schmid
  • 9 The Irrelevance of 'Qurʾanic Meaning': Akhbārī Shīʿī Interpretive Techniques and the Legal Verses of the Qurʾan
  • Robert Gleave
  • 1 Arguments for the Conditional Variability of Ḥudūd Punishments
  • M. Ashraf Adeel
  • 11 Metaphysical and Legal Implications of the Earliest Instance of Āyāt al - Aḥkām  The Prophet Muḥammad's Spiritual Journey in Light of the Obligatory Nature of the Night Prayer Vigil (Ṣalāt al-Layl) in Sūrat al-Muzzammil
  • Imranali Panjwani
  • Part 4 Contemporary Philosophical Perspectives
  • 12 Making Sense of Obligatory Faith in the Qurʾan
  • Hamid Vahid
  • 13 A Decision-Theoretic Approach to the Ḥujjiyya of Regulative Qurʾanic Verses
  • Mahmoud Morvarid
  • 14 The Existential Perspective on the Regulative Verses ( Āyāt al - Aḥkām ) of the Qurʾan
  • Arif Abdul Hussain
  • Part 5 Contemporary Legal and Ethical Trajectories
  • 15 Rules and Rituals in the Qurʾan: Is There a Role for Reasons?
  • Oliver Leaman
  • 16 Reconstruction of Sharīʿa through Judicial Ijtihād  Inheritance Rights of Childless Widows under the Ithnā ʿAshariyya School in Pakistan
  • Muhammad Zubair Abbasi
  • 17 'Do Not Prohibit the Good Things That God Has Made Lawful to You' (Q. 5:87): Ethical Vegetarianism in Islam and Beyond
  • Sarra Tlili
  • 18 'Clear' Verses of the Qurʾan ( Āyāt al - Aḥkām ) and Environmental Ethics
  • Etin Anwar
  • Index.