The Birth of a Legal Institution

The Formation of the Waqf in Third-Century A.H. Ḥanafī Legal Discourse
Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-90-04-13029-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 18, 242 Seiten, Format (B × H): 167 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 603 g

Reihe: Studies in Islamic Law and Society

This book present the first sustained analysis of the earliest legal treatises on the Islamic trust, or waqf -- the 'AḥkÄm al-Waqf' of HilÄl al-Ra᾿y and the 'AḥkÄm al-AwqÄf' of al-KhaṣṣÄf.
The book situates the treastise and their authors within third/ninth century legal culture, and then undertakes a systematic textual analysis of the treatises, examining both the attributes of Ḥanafī legal discourse and how the waqf came to be defined and situated within existing categories of charitable giving, inheritance, bequest and death-sickness. The final chapter focuses on how the waqf was legitimated hermeneutically through traditions of the Prophet and his Companions.
The close textual analysis of these treatises is especially important for historians of early Islamic law.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hennigan, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islamisches Recht
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Islamisches Recht

Über Autor(innen)

Peter C. Hennigan, Ph.D. (1999) in History, Cornell University, (J.D. 2001), Yale Law School, is a law clerk for the Honorable Ralph K. Winter, Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.