Sufis and Sharī'a : The Forgotten School of Mercy / Samer Dajani.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dajani, Samer, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ibn al-ʻArabī, 1165-1240--Influence.

Ibn al-ʻArabī.

Islamic law.

Sufis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 391 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press Ltd, [2023]

Summary:

Highlights a number of the major Sufi figures whose writings on legal theory were strongly shaped by their Sufism, showing how they belonged to the same tradition and developed each other's ideas.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

Introduction: The Sufis and Legal Theory

Part 1 Mysticism, Traditionalism and the School of Mercy

1 The Schools of Law

2 Sufis and Traditionalism

3 Al-Tirmidhī’s Critique of Rationalism

4 Ibn ʿArabī’s Traditionalism

5 The Akbarī Madhhab: Ibn ʿArabī’s School of Mercy

6 Loyalty to the Akbarī Way: ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Shaʿrānī

Part 2 Mercy in Flexibility: A Pat h for All Mankind

7 The All-Comprehensive Nature of the Sharīʿa: From Tirmidhī to Suyūṭī

8 The ‘Scale’ of ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Shaʿrānī

Part 3 The Akbarī Madhhab in Practice and its Influence on the Modern World

9 Aḥmad ibn Idrīs and the Implementation of Ibn ʿArabī’s Jurisprudence in the Nineteenth Century

10 The Teachings and Influence of Aḥmad ibn Idrīs

11 From Ibn ʿArabī to the Salafīs

Conclusion: The Spirit of the Law – Competing Visions

Appendix: The Classical Juristic Debate on Whether Every Mujtahid Was Correct

References

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2022.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on August 23, 2023).

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781399508599

1399508598

9781399508582

139950858X

OCLC:

1352973460