Islamic imperial law : Harun-al-Rashid's codification project / Benjamin Jokisch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jokisch, Benjamin.

Series:

Studien zur Geschichte und Kultur des islamischen Orients (2004) ; n.F., Bd. 19.

Studien zur Geschichte und Kultur des islamischen Orients ; n.F., Bd. 19

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islamic law--History--To 1500.

Islamic law.

History.

Physical Description:

757 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Walter De Gruyter, [2007]

Contents:

Part I The Origins of Islamic Law

Chapter 1 Special Indicators of Reception 59

1.1 The Emergence of Islamic Legal Literature 59

1.2 Uniformity of Islamic Law 60

1.3 The Emergence of Personal Law Schools 63

1.4 Critical Reactions 66

1.5 Centralization of Judiciary 66

1.6 The Emergence of Islamic Humanism 67

1.7 Wave of Codifications 71

1.8 Abundance of Comparative Studies 74

Chapter 2 Circumstances of Reception 77

2.1 Muslims Involved in the Reception 77

2.2 Date and Place of the Reception 80

2.3 Translators 81

2.4 Commissions 90

Chapter 3 Comparative Analysis 97

3.2 Structure 105

3.3 Legal Fields 109

3.4 Deficiency Law 143

(b) Historical Layers and Text Structure 146

(c) Juristic Aspects: Survey 153

(d) Casuistry 166

(f) Style 226

(g) Legal Reasoning 229

Part II Islamic Imperial Law

Chapter 4 Ideological Basis 265

Chapter 5 Codification and Dissemination 279

5.1 The Imperial Code: Zahir al-riwaya 279

5.2 Islamic Government and Codification 280

5.3 Binding Force of the Imperial Code 282

5.4 Centralization of the Judiciary 287

5.5 Dissemination of Hanafism 305

Part III From Imperial to Jurists' Law

Chapter 6 The Byzantine Factor 321

6.1 General Predisposition to Cultural Exchange 322

6.2 Contacts 325

(a) Nafi` b. al-Azraq 338

(b) Jabir b. Hayyan 347

(c) Ibn Kullab 357

(d) Photios 364

6.3 Names and Catchwords 386

6.4 Literature 397

(a) Law 397

(b) Grammar 405

(c) Lexicography 413

(d) Prosody 415

(e) Rhetoric 420

(f) Theology 425

(g) Exegesis 430

(h) Hadith 432

(i) History 433

(j) Romance 436

(k) Adab 437

(a) Survey 439

(b) Byzantine-Islamic Intertwinedness 443

Chapter 7 The Origins of Usul al-fiqh 517

7.2 Shaybani's Usul Work 520

(a) The Term Usul al-fiqh 521

(b) Bipartition of Usul al-fiqh 522

(c) Rukhsa 524

(d) Mu`adh-Tradition 526

(e) Hadith Criticism 528

(f) Other Elements 531

7.3 The Shift to Orthodoxy: Shafi`i's Risala 535

Chapter 8 The Islamic Organon 573

8.2 The Divine Premise 578

8.3 The Philosophical School 581

8.4 Comparative Analysis: Organon - Usul al-fiqh 588

(a) Isagoge 591

(b) Categories 592

(c) Hermeneutics 598

(d) First and Second Analytics 600

(e) Sophistical Refutations 605

(f) Rhetoric 606

8.5 Scientization of Jurisprudence 611

Appendix 1 Cases 627

Appendix 2 Judges 651.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [687]-746) and index.

ISBN:

3110190486

9783110190489

OCLC:

176628227