Anthropology of Islamic Law

Education, Ethics, and Legal Interpretation at Egypt's Al-Azhar
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-0-19-093288-6
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 326 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 655 g

The Anthropology of Islamic Law shows how hermeneutic theory and practice theory can be brought together to analyze cultural, legal, and religious traditions. These ideas are developed through an analysis of the Islamic legal tradition, which examines both Islamic legal doctrine and religious education. The book combines anthropology and Islamicist history, using ethnography and in-depth analysis of Arabic religious texts. The book focuses on higher religious learning in contemporary Egypt, examining its intellectual, ethical, and pedagogical dimensions. Data is drawn from fieldwork inside al-Azhar University, Cairo University's Dar al-Ulum, and the network of traditional study circles associated with the al-Azhar mosque. Together these sites constitute the most important venue for the transmission of religious learning in the contemporary Muslim world. The book gives special attention to contemporary Egypt, and also provides a broader analysis relevant to Islamic legal doctrine and religious education throughout history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nakissa, Aria

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Philosophie & Wissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Nicht-Westliche Philosophie Islamische & Arabische Philosophie
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtssoziologie, Rechtspsychologie, Rechtslinguistik
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik
• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Islamisches Recht
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islamisches Recht
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- Section I: Theory, Ethnography, History

- Chapter 1: Hermeneutic Theory and Practice Theory in the Study of Cultural, Legal, and Religious Traditions

- Chapter 2: Higher Religious Learning in Modern Egypt

- Section II: Traditional Islamic Learning and Legal Doctrine

- Chapter 3: Sharia, Sunna, and Ethics

- Chapter 4: Acquiring Knowledge through Companionship (Suhba)

- Chapter 5: The Sanad

- Chapter 6: Taking From the Mouths of Shaykhs (Mushafaha)

- Section III: A New Perspective on Islamic Legal Doctrine

- Chapter 7: The Structure of Islamic Legal Thought

- Section IV: Modern Reform

- Chapter 8: Reorganizing Time and Space

- Chapter 9: Transforming the Act of Reading

- Chapter 10: Salafism and Wasatism

- Conclusion

- Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Aria Nakissa is Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies and Anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis.