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Narratives of Islamic legal theory / by Rumee Ahmed.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ahmed, Rumee.
- Series:
- Oxford Islamic legal studies.
- Oxford Islamic legal studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Islamic law--Interpretation and construction.
- Islamic law.
- Islam--Study and teaching.
- Islam.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (307 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In the critical period when Islamic law first developed, a new breed of jurists developed a genre of legal theory treatises to explore how the fundamental moral teachings of Islam might operate as a legal system. Seemingly rhetorical and formulaic, these manuals have long been overlooked for the insight they offer into the early formation of Islamic conceptions of law and its role in social life.In this book, Rumee Ahmed shatters the prevailing misconceptions of the purpose and form of the Islamic legal treatise. Ahmed describes how Muslim jurists used the genre of legal theory to argue for in
- Contents:
- Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; Introduction; 1 From God's Speech to Islamic Law:Defining the Qurʼān; The Miraculousness and Inimitability of the Qurʼān; The Clear and the Ambiguous in the Qurʼān (Muhḳamāt Wa Mutashābihạ̄t); Brief Review; The Abrogating and the Abrogated (Al-Nāsikh Wa-al-Mansūkh); Conclusion; 2 Re-creating the Prophetic Model: Hạdīth as the Gateway to the Sunna; Multiple-Chained Transmissions (Mutawātir) and Well-Established (Mashhūr) Transmissions; The Single Transmission (Al-Khabar al-Wāhịd); Brief Review
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-170) and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on Apr. 18, 2012).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-173807-7
- 0-19-163014-4
- 1-283-58222-8
- 9786613894670
- 0-19-163013-6
- OCLC:
- 830169099
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