Islamic Legal Thought
Title | Islamic Legal Thought PDF eBook |
Author | David Powers |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 606 |
Release | 2013-10-09 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 9004255885 |
In Islamic Legal Thought: A Compendium of Muslim Jurists, twenty-three scholars each contribute a chapter containing the biography of a distinguished Muslim jurist and a translated sample of his work. Jurists of the formative, classical and modern periods are represented.
The Spirit of Islamic Law
Title | The Spirit of Islamic Law PDF eBook |
Author | Bernard G. Weiss |
Publisher | University of Georgia Press |
Pages | 233 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 0820328278 |
Focuses on a Muslim legal science known in Arabic as usul al-fiqh. Whereas the kindred science of fiqh is concerned with the articulation of actual rules of law, this science attempts to elaborate the theoretical and methodological foundations of the law. It outlines the features of Muslim juristic thought.
The Reconstruction of Legal Thought in Islam
Title | The Reconstruction of Legal Thought in Islam PDF eBook |
Author | Syed Riazul Hassan |
Publisher | |
Pages | 246 |
Release | 1974 |
Genre | Comparative law |
ISBN |
Law and Tradition in Classical Islamic Thought
Title | Law and Tradition in Classical Islamic Thought PDF eBook |
Author | M. Cook |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 328 |
Release | 2013-01-06 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1137078952 |
Bringing together essays on topics related to Islamic law, this book is composed of articles by prominent legal scholars and historians of Islam. They exemplify a critical development in the field of Islamic Studies: the proliferation of methodological approaches that employ a broad variety of sources to analyze social and political developments.
Early Islamic Legal Theory
Title | Early Islamic Legal Theory PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph Edmund Lowry |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 460 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9004163603 |
This book offers a comprehensive reinterpretation of Sh?fi 's "Ris?la" and shows how Sh?fi sought to formulate an all-embracing hermeneutic that portrays the law as a tightly interlocking structure organized around defined interactions of the Qur n and the Sunna.
Custom in Islamic Law and Legal Theory
Title | Custom in Islamic Law and Legal Theory PDF eBook |
Author | Ayman Shabana |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 2010-11-14 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0230117341 |
This book explores the relationship between custom and Islamic law and seeks to uncover the role of custom in the construction of legal rulings. On a deeper level, however, it deals with the perennial problem of change and continuity in the Islamic legal tradition (or any tradition for that matter).
Early Islamic Legal Theory
Title | Early Islamic Legal Theory PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph Lowry |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 459 |
Release | 2007-12-31 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 9047423895 |
The Risāla of al-Shāfiʿī (d. 204/820), the earliest preserved work of Islamic legal theory, has been understood in previous scholarship as either the elaboration of a hierarchy of sources of law (Qurʾān, Sunna, consensus, and analogical reasoning) or an extended defense of the Sunna. Through a careful rereading of this celebrated text, this book offers a comprehensive reinterpretation of the Risāla, in which Shāfiʿī formulated an all-encompassing hermeneutic that portrays the law as a tightly interlocking structure organized around defined interactions of the Qurʾān and the Sunna. Topics covered include Shāfiʿī’s creative account of the law’s architectonics, hermeneutical techniques, legal epistemology, relationship to kalām, and the role of consensus (ijmāʿ).