The Formation of the Sunni Schools of Law, 9th-10th Centuries C.E.

Erscheinungsjahr 1997
ISBN: 978-90-04-10952-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 4, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 525 g

Reihe: Studies in Islamic Law and Society

The Sunni schools of law are named for jurisprudents of the eighth and ninth centuries, but they did not actually function so early. The main division at that time was rather between adherents of 'ra'y' and 'ḥadīth'. No school had a regular means of forming students.

Relying mainly on biographical dictionaries, this study traces the constitutive elements of the classical schools and finds that they first came together in the early tenth century, particularly with the work of Ibn Surayj (d. 306/918), al-KhallÄl (d. 311/923), and a series of hÌ£anafÄ« teachers ending with al-KarkhÄ« (d. 340/952). MÄlikism prospered in the West for political reasons, while the zÌ£ÄhirÄ« and JarÄ«rÄ« schools faded out due to their refusal to adopt the common new teaching methods.

In this book the author fleshes out these historical developments in a manner that will be extremely useful to the field, while at the same time developing some new and highly original perspectives.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Melchert, Christopher

Fachgebiete

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

Über Autor(innen)

Christopher Melchert, Ph.D. (1992) in History, University of Pennsylvania, is a student of Islamic movements and institutions of the ninth and tenth centuries C.E. He has published half a dozen articles besides this, his first book.