Structural Interrelations of Theory and Practice in Islamic Law

A Study of Six Works of Medieval Islamic Jurisprudence
Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-90-04-15031-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 27, 206 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 576 g

Reihe: Studies in Islamic Law and Society

This volume introduces six texts of Islamic jurisprudence, authored by six jurists representing all four Sunni schools of Islamic law (two Hanafi, two Shafi'i, one Maliki, and one Hanbali), who lived in areas as far apart as Uzbekistan, Iraq, Syria, Gaza (Palestine), Egypt, and Algeria between the tenth and sixteenth centuries CE. My reading of these texts attempts to articulate an underlying structural interrelationship between theoretical and practical legal reasoning in the Islamic juristic tradition. This volume provides an anatomy of Islamic legal reasoning, centered on the basic concepts of human agency, responsibility, rights, legal hermeneutics, extra-textual sources of the law, and basic inquiries, such as the jurisdiction of law in Islam and the relationship between law and government and between law and theology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ahmad, Ahmad Atif

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islamisches Recht
• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Islamisches Recht
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Geschichte des Islam Geschichte des Islam: 7. - 14. Jahrhundert

Über Autor(innen)

Ahmad Atif Ahmad, Ph.D. (2005) in Arabic and Islamic Studies, Harvard University, is Assistant Professor in Islamics at Macalester College, MN. His first book (in Arabic) addressed the issue of reviewing court decisions in Islamic law (Cairo, 1997).