Islamic Law in Early Modern Iran

Sharia Court Practice in the Sixteenth to Twentieth Centuries
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-3-11-123658-2
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 572 g

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Historical studies on the practice of Islamic law (shari'a) tend to focus on practice in a Sunni setting during the Mamluk or Ottoman periods. This book decenters Sunni and Mamluk and Ottoman normativity by investigating the practice of shari'a in a Twelver Shi'i Persian-speaking milieu, in early modern Iran between the sixteenth to twentieth centuries. Drawing on documentary evidence and narrative sources, it reconstructs who the practitioners of Islamic law were, how they authenticated, annulled, and archived legal documents, and how they intervened in the resolution of disputes over religious endowments (waqf). The study demonstrates that following Iran's conversion to Twelver Shi'ism under the Safavids, the dominance of Usuli Shi'i legal theory, which conferred judicial authority on scholars recognized as Shi'i jurists (mujathids), affected both the practitioners of Islamic law and the procedures of shari'a court practice in Iran. Shi'i jurists in Iran, as a result, would come to exercise by the end of the nineteenth century a judicial monopoly over valid shari'a court practice thus laying the foundation for Ayatollah Khomeini's extension, during the Iranian revolution, of the authority of the Shi'i jurist over political affairs.

Zielgruppe

Arabist/-innen, Islamwissenschaftler/-innen, Historiker/-innen / Scholars of Islamic Studies, Islamic Law and History

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bhalloo, Zahir

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islamisches Recht
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Geschichte des Islam
• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Islamisches Recht
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten

Über Autor(innen)

Zahir Bhalloo, Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, Universität Hamburg.