Transformations of tradition : Islamic law in colonial modernity / Junaid Quadri.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Quadri, Junaid, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islamic law--History--19th century.

Islamic law.

Islamic law--Interpretation and construction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (264 pages).

Place of Publication:

Oxford, UK : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

This text is a study of the Muslim world's entanglement with colonial modernity. More specifically, it is an historical examination of the development of the long-standing, indigenous tradition of learning and praxis known as Islamic law (sharia, fiqh) as a result of its imbalanced interaction with new European modes of knowing during, and in the immediate aftermath of, the colonial experience. Drawing upon the writings of jurist-scholars from the anaf school of law writing in Cairo, Kazan, Lucknow, Baghdad, and Istanbul, 'Transformations of Tradition' reveals several central shifts in Islamic legal writing that throw into doubt the possibility of reading its later trajectory through the lens of a continuous 'tradition.'

Contents:

INTRODUCTION

1. PARTISANSHIP, TERRITORIALISM AND TRANSREGIONAL NETWORKS OF BELONGING

2. AUTHORITY, IJTIHĀD AND TEMPORALITY

3. COLONIALISM, TRANSLATION AND SEDUCTION

4. SCIENCE, PERCEPTION AND OBJECTIVITY

5. RELIGION, THE SECULAR AND LANGUAGE

CONCLUSION

BIBLIOGRAPHY.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-007706-9

0-19-007707-7

0-19-007705-0