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Islamic law in theory

studies on jurisprudence in honor of Bernard Weiss

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An edition of Islamic law in theory (2014)

Islamic law in theory

studies on jurisprudence in honor of Bernard Weiss

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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 the methodology of Islamic law. Contributors include: Peter Sluglett, Ahmed El Shamsy, Éric Chaumont, A. Kevin Reinhart, Mohammad Fadel, Jonathan Brockopp, Christian Lange, Raquel M. Ukeles, Paul Powers, Robert Gleave, Wolfhart Heinrichs, Joseph Lowry, Rudolph Peters, Frank E. Vogel.

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Brill
Language
English
Pages
370

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Table of Contents

Happy memories of Bernard Weiss / Peter Sluglett
Bibliography of the writings of Bernard Weiss / Elizabeth Clark (comp.)
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) / Eric Chaumont
Ritual action and practical action : the incomprehensibility of Muslim devotional action / A. Kevin Reinhart
"Istafti qalbaka wa in aftāka al-nasu wa aftāka" : the ethical obligations of the muqallid between autonomy and trust / Mohammad Fadel
Saḥnūn's Mudawwanah and the Piety of the "sharīʻah-minded" / Jonathan E. Brockopp
Sins, expiation and non-rationality in Ḥanafī and Shāfiʻī 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 Imami 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 ijmāʻ? : 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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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In English, French and Arabic.

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Leiden
Series
Studies in islamic law and society -- volume 37, Studies in Islamic law and society -- v. 37.

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Dewey Decimal Class
340.5/9
Library of Congress
KBP144 .I85 2014, KBP144.I85 2014

The Physical Object

Pagination
xx, 370 pages
Number of pages
370

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Open Library
OL28392174M
Internet Archive
islamiclawintheo0000unse
ISBN 10
9004264809, 9004265198
ISBN 13
9789004264809, 9789004265196
LCCN
2013045972
OCLC/WorldCat
863127726

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