Early Mālikī Law: Ibn 'Abd Al-Ḥakam and His Major Compendium of Jurisprudence

Erscheinungsjahr 2000
ISBN: 978-90-04-11628-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Arabisch, Band 14, 312 Seiten, Format (B × H): 166 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 740 g

Reihe: Studies in Islamic Law and Soc

This study presents the first biography of ‘Abd AllÄh b. ‘Abd al-hÌ£akam (d. 214/829), an important figure in the nascent MÄlikÄ« school, and introduces his compendium of law. The subject of the Arabic text is the law of slavery, and two chapters examine early MÄlikÄ« slave law in the context of other Near Eastern legal codes.
The narrow focus on Ibn ‘Abd al-hÌ£akam and his 'Compendium' is used to refine the distinction between "organic" and "fixed" editions of early legal texts, and also to argue that these texts can be used to reconstruct the thought of even earlier figures, such as MÄlik B. Anas (d. 179/795).
'Early MÄlikÄ« Law' should be of value to legal historians, scholars of religion and all those working in the developing field of Slave Studies. The valuable conclusions arising from this study of a single legal text indicate the importance of continued analysis of these early documents, both the few that have been published and the many which remain unexplored in manuscript collections.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brockopp, Jonathan

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Islamisches Recht
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Biographien & Autobiographien: Historisch, Politisch, Militärisch
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam & Islamische Studien
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islamisches Recht

Über Autor(innen)

Jonathan E. Brockopp, Ph.D. (1995) in Religious Studies, Yale University, is Assistant Professor Religion at Bard College (Annandale, New York). He has published on Islamic ethics and early Islamic law, and is the co-author (with Jacob Neusner and Tamara Sonn) of Judaism and Islam in Practice: a source book of the classical age (Routledge, 2000).