The anthropology of Islamic law : education, ethics, and legal interpretation at Egypt's al-Azhar / Aria Nakissa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nakissa, Aria, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jāmiʻat al-Azhar.

Islamic law--Study and teaching.

Islamic law.

Islamic law--Egypt.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (329 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.

Summary:

Aria Nakissa 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. In terms of disciplinary orientation, the book combines anthropology and Islamicist history, utilizing both ethnography and in-depth analysis of Arabic religious texts.

Contents:

Hermeneutic theory and practice theory in the study of cultural, legal, and religious traditions

Higher religious learning in modern Egypt

Shari a, Sunna, and ethics

Acquiring knowledge through companionship (suhba)

The sanad

Taking from the mouths of shaykhs (mushafaha)

The structure of islamic legal thought

Reorganizing time and space

Transforming the act of reading

Salafism and wasatism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Previously issued in print: 2019.

ISBN:

0-19-093290-2

0-19-093291-0

0-19-093289-9