Malik and Medina : Islamic legal reasoning in the formative period / byUmar F. Abd-Allah Wyman-Landgraf.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Abd-Allah, Umar F.

Series:

Islamic history and civilization ; vol. 101.

Islamic history and civilization ; vol. 101

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islamic law--History.

Islamic law.

Islamic law--Interpretation and construction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (566 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book studies the legal reasoning of Mālik ibn Anas (d. 179 H./795 C.E.) in the Muwaṭṭa’ and Mudawwana . Although focusing on Mālik, the book presents a broad comparative study of legal reasoning in the first three centuries of Islam. It reexamines the role of considered opinion ( ra’y ), dissent, and legal ḥadīths and challenges the paradigm that Muslim jurists ultimately concurred on a “four-source” (Qurʾān, sunna , consensus, and analogy) theory of law. Instead, Mālik and Medina emphasizes that the four Sunnī schools of law ( madhāhib ) emerged during the formative period as distinctive, consistent, yet largely unspoken legal methodologies and persistently maintained their independence and continuity over the next millennium.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Umar F. Abd-Allah Wymann-Landgraf

Introduction / Umar F. Abd-Allah Wymann-Landgraf

1. Mālik in Medina / Umar F. Abd-Allah Wymann-Landgraf

2. An Overview of Mālik’s Legal Reasoning / Umar F. Abd-Allah Wymann-Landgraf

3. Critiques of Medinese Praxis / Umar F. Abd-Allah Wymann-Landgraf

4. Medinese Praxis in the Eyes of Its Advocates / Umar F. Abd-Allah Wymann-Landgraf

5. Mālik’s Terminology / Umar F. Abd-Allah Wymann-Landgraf

6. The Sunna-Terms / Umar F. Abd-Allah Wymann-Landgraf

7. Terms Referring to the People of Knowledge in Medina / Umar F. Abd-Allah Wymann-Landgraf

8. References to Medinese Praxis / Umar F. Abd-Allah Wymann-Landgraf

9. Amr-Terms Supported by Local Consensus / Umar F. Abd-Allah Wymann-Landgraf

10. AN: Al-Amr ʿIndanā / Umar F. Abd-Allah Wymann-Landgraf

Conclusion / Umar F. Abd-Allah Wymann-Landgraf

Bibliography / Umar F. Abd-Allah Wymann-Landgraf

Index / Umar F. Abd-Allah Wymann-Landgraf.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

90-04-24788-2

OCLC:

846841532

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004247888 DOI