Mālik and Medina: Islamic Legal Reasoning in the Formative Period

Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-90-04-21140-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 101, 554 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 996 g

Reihe: Islamic History and Civilizati

This book studies the legal reasoning of Malik ibn Anas (d. 179 H./795 C.E.) in the Muwatta’ and Mudawwana. Although focusing on Malik, the book presents a broad comparative study of legal reasoning in the first three centuries of Islam. It reexamines the role of considered opinion (ra’y), dissent, and legal hadiths and challenges the paradigm that Muslim jurists ultimately concurred on a “four-source” (Qur'an, sunna, consensus, and analogy) theory of law. Instead, Malik and Medina emphasizes that the four Sunni schools of law (madhahib) emerged during the formative period as distinctive, consistent, yet largely unspoken legal methodologies and persistently maintained their independence and continuity over the next millennium.

Zielgruppe

Academic libraries and institutions, undergraduates, graduates, post-graduates, instructors, professors, and specialists as well as educated laypersons interested in Islamic law, hadith literature, general Islamic studies, and the history of law.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Abd-Allah, Umar F.

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Introduction

PART I
Chapter I: Malik in Medina
Chapter II: An overview of Malik’s Legal Reasoning
Chapter III: Medinese Praxis through the Eyes of Others
Chapter IV: Medinese Praxis in the Eyes of the Maliki Tradition

PART II
Chapter V: Malik’s Terminology
Chapter VII: the Sunna-Terms
Chapter VII: Terms Referring to the People of Knowledge in Medina
Chapter VIII: References to Medinese Praxis
Chapter IX: Amr-Terms Supported by Local Consensus
Chapter X: AN: Al-Amr 'Indana

Conclusion: Malik and Medina in Perspective
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Abd-Allah, Umar F.
Umar F. Abd-Allah Wymann-Landgraf (Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1978) taught at Windsor, Temple, Michigan, and King Abd al-Aziz universities. He currently teaches at Darul Qasim (Chicago) and has published several books and articles related to Islam and Islamic studies.

Umar F. Abd-Allah Wymann-Landgraf (Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1978) taught at Windsor, Temple, Michigan, and King Abd al-Aziz universities. He currently teaches at Darul Qasim (Chicago) and has published several books and articles related to Islam and Islamic studies.