The Pillars of Islam : Investigation into an Allegory.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Benkheira, Mohamed Hocine.

Series:

Themes in Islamic Studies

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (160 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boston : BRILL, 2026.

Summary:

The research attempts to understand when Pillars of Islam appeared and then for what reasons it succeeded.

Contents:

Front Cover

Half Title

Series Information

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Preface

Transliteration

Chapter 1 Status quaestionis

1 The Three Aspects of the Problem

2 Do the Five Pillars Have a Manichaean Origin?

3 The Symbolism of the Number Five

4 Ordinary Uses of the Word rukn

Chapter 2 The Meaning of ʿamal bi-l-arkān

Chapter 3 Is the Idea of the "Pillars of Islam" Present in the Qurʾān?

1 Articles of Faith and Ritual Prescriptions

2 Ritual Prescriptions

3 Other Verses Combine Articles of Faith, "Social" Obligations and Ritual Prescriptions

4 Some Verses Limit Themselves to Defining the Articles of Faith

5 Other Verses Combine Articles of Faith with Social Obligations

6 Verses Combining Social Obligations with Ritual Prescriptions

Chapter 4 Tradition: the Canonical Formula of the Pillars of Islam

1 The Canonical Formulation

1.1 The hadith of Gabriel/the Bedouin

1.1.1 The hadith of the Bedouin

1.2 The Appearance of the Analogy with Construction

2 Other Texts

2.1 Muʿādh's Mission in Yemen

2.2 Two Archaic Formulations

2.3 Countering Centrifugal Tendencies

2.4 A Fluctuating and Evolving List

2.5 The shahāda

2.6 The ṣalāt (Prayer)

2.7 The zakāt

2.8 Fasting

2.9 Pilgrimage

2.10 Is jihād a 'Pillar'?

2.11 In Search of a Name

Chapter 5 The Expression arkān al-islām

1 Before the Pillars of Islam

2 The Pillars of Islam: a Weapon to Combat Division?

3 Early Successes

3.1 The Pillars of Islam Enter into Theology and Shāfiʿīsm in the Fifth/Eleventh Century

3.2 The Shāfiʿites Appropriate the Formula

3.2.1 An Ibāḍī Author: al-Jannāwunī (Fifth/Eleventh Century)

3.3 The Formula Cannot Be Generalised

3.4 Ḥanafites and Ḥanbalites

3.5 Pillars, Obligations and Supererogatory Acts

3.6 The Lexicographers.

3.7 The Eighth/Fourteenth Century

3.8 The Ninth/Fifteenth Century

3.9 The Tenth/Sixteenth Century

3.10 The Eleventh/Seventeenth Century

3.11 The Twelfth/Eighteenth Century

3.12 The Thirteenth/Nineteenth Century

3.13 The Twentieth Century

4 Postscript

Chapter 6 Epilogue

Bibliography

Index

Index of Qurʾānic Verses

Back Cover.

Notes:

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ISBN:

90-04-75545-4

OCLC:

1592687412