Islamic Law in Context

A Primary Source Reader
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-1-00-901368-0
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 350 Seiten

This volume surveys the diversity of Islamic legal thought and practice, a 1500 - year tradition that has been cultivated throughout the Islamic world. It features translations of Islamic legal texts from across the spectrum of literary genres (including legal theory, judicial handbooks, pamphlets) that represent the range of temporal, geographic and linguistic contexts in which Islamic law has been, and continues to be, developed. Each text has been chosen and translated by a specialist. It is accompanied by an accessible introduction that places the author and text in historical and legal contexts and explains the state of the relevant field of study. An introduction to each section offers an overview of the genre and provides a useful bibliography. The volume will enable all researchers of Islamic law - established academics, undergraduate students, and general readers - to understand the tremendous and sometimes bewildering diversity of Islamic law, as well the continuities and common features that bind it together.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Anchassi, Omar

Gleave, Robert

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsgeschichte, Recht der Antike
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Leben & Praxis
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islamisches Recht
• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Islamisches Recht
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtssoziologie, Rechtspsychologie, Rechtslinguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Theologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Robert Gleave and Omar Anchassi; Part I. Islamic Legal Theory (Usul al-Fiqh) and Related Genres: 1. The Foundation of Analogy Ziad Bou Akl; 2. The Insufficiency of Concomitance Alone Walter Edward Young; 3. Selections from al-Manthur fi-l-Qawa'id of Badr al-Din al-Zarkashi (d. 794/1392) Elias G. Saba; 4. 'Is Every Mujtahid Correct or Not?' and the implications of holding incorrect theological beliefs for one's fate in the hereafter, from Qawanin al-Usul of Mirza al-Qummi (d. 1231/1816) Ali-reza Bhojani; 5. The 'Innovation' of Legal School Affiliation Robert Gleave; Part II. Islamic Jurisprudence (Fiqh) and Related Genres: 6. The Kitab al-Umma, or Sahifat al-Madina Rehanna Nurmohamed; 7. Section on lawful food from al-Mabsut fi Fiqh al-Imamiyya of Muhammad b. al-Hasan al-Tusi (d. 460/1067) Sumeyra Yakar; 8. 'The Treatise of Refutation of those who Criticise [Our] Conduct' (Kitab al-Radd 'ala man Ta'ana fi l-Sira) attributed to Imam al-Mutawakkil 'ala Allah, Ahmad b. Sulayman (d. 566/1170) Eirik Hovden; 9. Menstruating Women and Visiting the Mosque Robert Gleave; 10. Section on the law of rebellion from the Radd al-Muhtar of Ibn 'Abidin (d. 1252/1836) Aysegul Simsek; 11. Offer and Acceptance in Islamic Marriage Robert Gleave; 12. Treatise on Jihad and Migration Magomed Gizbulaev; 13. Alms Tax (zaka) in Shi'i Law Maryam Rutner; 14. A Difficult Case of Divorce, Tholaq Samvadam of 'Abd Allah Musliyar (b. ?) Sayyed Mohamed Muhsin; Part III. Legal Opinions (Fatwas): 15. Ottoman Fatwas on the Substitution of Defunct Endowment Properties, from al-Aqwal al-Mardiyya of Qadizadah Muhammad Tahir (d. 1254/1834) Hatice Kubra; 16. Settling Disputes among Nomads Ismail Warscheid; 17. Fatwas on Aspects of Modern Life Knut S. Vikør; 18. 'According to the qaul mu'tamad it is unlawful and invalid' Mohamad Bekti Khudari Lantong; 19. Women and Leadership Mahmoud Afifi; 20. 'His doctrine is deviant' Mukhsin Achmed; Part IV. Court Judgements and other Court Documentation: 21. The Restitituion of Conjugal Rights Sohaira Siddi

Über Autor(innen)

Anchassi, Omar
Omar Anchassi is a scholar of Islamic intellectual history with a focus on the disciplines of law (fiqh), theology and Qur'an commentary. He has published on violence, slavery, gender and sexuality in Islamic thought and practice in prestigious venues including Islamic Law and Society, and Edinburgh and Cambridge University Presses. He is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Exeter, and was previously an Early Career Fellow in Islamic Studies at the University of Edinburgh. For three years, he served as Treasurer of BRAIS (the British Association for Islamic Studies).

Gleave, Robert
Robert Gleave is Professor of Arabic Studies at the University of Exeter, UK. He teaches and researches in Arabic and Islamic Studies with a focus on Islamic law and legal theory, Shi'ite Islam and techniques of exegesis in Islamic intellectual history. He is author of Inevitable Doubt (Brill, 2000), Scripturalist Islam (Brill, 2007) and Islam and Literalism (EUP, 2011). He edited the Violence in Islamic Thought series (EUP, 2016 to 2021). Islamic law in Context is one of the outputs of the Understanding Sharia project (funded by the HERA consortium), of which he was Principal Investigator.