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Islamic legal interpretation : muftis and their fatwas / edited by Muhammad Khalid Masud, Brinkley Messick, David S. Powers.
Van Pelt Library KBL0.14.O63 I85 1996
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Harvard studies in Islamic law
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fatwas--History.
- Fatwas.
- Islamic law--History.
- Islamic law.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- x, 431 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1996.
- Summary:
- The world knows of Ayatollah Khomeini's "fatwa" in the Salman Rushdie case, yet this key institution in Muslim society has not been the subject of a major examination until now." Islamic Legal Interpretation"offers a casebook of interdisciplinary analyses of fatwas over a wide range of times and places.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [373]-401) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0674468708
- OCLC:
- 33862660
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