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Regulative Verses of the Qurʾan : From Historical Trends to Contemporary Trajectories / edited by Karen Bauer, Seyed Mohammad Ghari S. Fatemi, Robert Gleave and Devin J. Stewart.

Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2026 Available online

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Book
Contributor:
Bauer, Karen, editor.
Fatemi, Seyed Mohammad Ghari S., editor.
Gleave, R. (Robert), editor.
Stewart, Devin J., editor.
Series:
Al-Mahdi Institute ; 1.
Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2026.
Al-Mahdi Institute ; 1
Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2026
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Middle East and Islamic Studies.
Philosophy, Theology & Science.
Islamic law.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (527 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Other Title:
From Historical Trends to Contemporary Trajectories
Place of Publication:
Leiden ; Boston : BRILL, 2026.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
Why does the Qurʾan contain legal verses, and how have scholars interpreted them across the centuries? Regulative Verses of the Qurʾan offers a comprehensive study of how Islamic law emerged from scriptural interpretation, by exploring the nature of law in the Qur’an itself and in Islamic thought, including in the foundational yet often overlooked genre of aḥkām al-Qurʾān . Through detailed analysis of classical and contemporary texts, the volume reveals how jurists across Sunni, Shia, and Ibadi traditions have debated the meaning, scope, and application of legal verses. Drawing on rare primary sources and philosophical perspectives this book is an essential resource, illuminating the rich interplay between divine revelation, legal reasoning, and ethical inquiry in Islam.
Contents:
List Figures and Tables IX
Introduction: Regulative Verses of the Qurʾan – from Historical Trends to Contemporary Trajectories
Seyed Mohammad G.S. Fatemi, Karen Bauer, Robert Gleave and Devin J. Stewart
Part 1 The Qurʾan, Ethics, and Law
1 Towards a Prehistory of Islamic Law: the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament, and the Qurʾan
Holger Zellentin
2 The Place of Divine Law in the Qurʾan’s Moral Theology
Nicolai Sinai
3 Qurʾanic Morality as Qurʾanic Law
Karen Bauer and Feras Hamza
4 The Myth of the Elite Male Addressee and Its Implications for Regulative Verses
Abla Hasan
5 On the Universality of the Divine Commands versus the Casuistic Interpretation of the Regulative Verses
Gholamreza Aavani
Part 2 The Historical Genre of Aḥkām al-Qurʾan
6 Legal Hermeneutics and Religious Authority in Kitāb Aḥkām al - Qurʾān by al-Jaṣṣāṣ al-Rāzī (d. 37/981)
Devin J. Stewart
7 The Imāmī Reception of the Qurʾan’s Regulative Verses ( Āyāt al - Aḥkām )
Seyed Mohammad G.S. Fatemi and Syed Wajee ul-Hasan Shah
Part 3 Interpretation of Regulative Verses
8 Āyāt al - Aḥkām in Early Ibāḍī Thought
Nora K. Schmid
9 The Irrelevance of ‘Qurʾanic Meaning’: Akhbārī Shīʿī Interpretive Techniques and the Legal Verses of the Qurʾan
Robert Gleave
1 Arguments for the Conditional Variability of Ḥudūd Punishments
M. Ashraf Adeel
11 Metaphysical and Legal Implications of the Earliest Instance of Āyāt al - Aḥkām The Prophet Muḥammad’s Spiritual Journey in Light of the Obligatory Nature of the Night Prayer Vigil (Ṣalāt al-Layl) in Sūrat al-Muzzammil
Imranali Panjwani
Part 4 Contemporary Philosophical Perspectives
12 Making Sense of Obligatory Faith in the Qurʾan
Hamid Vahid
13 A Decision-Theoretic Approach to the Ḥujjiyya of Regulative Qurʾanic Verses
Mahmoud Morvarid
14 The Existential Perspective on the Regulative Verses ( Āyāt al - Aḥkām ) of the Qurʾan
Arif Abdul Hussain
Part 5 Contemporary Legal and Ethical Trajectories
15 Rules and Rituals in the Qurʾan: Is There a Role for Reasons?
Oliver Leaman
16 Reconstruction of Sharīʿa through Judicial Ijtihād Inheritance Rights of Childless Widows under the Ithnā ʿAshariyya School in Pakistan
Muhammad Zubair Abbasi
17 ‘Do Not Prohibit the Good Things That God Has Made Lawful to You’ (Q. 5:87): Ethical Vegetarianism in Islam and Beyond
Sarra Tlili
18 ‘Clear’ Verses of the Qurʾan ( Āyāt al - Aḥkām ) and Environmental Ethics
Etin Anwar
Index.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
Description based on print version record.
Other Format:
Print version: Bauer, Karen Regulative Verses of the Qurʾan
ISBN:
9789004755567
OCLC:
1610748734
Publisher Number:
10.1163/9789004755567 DOI

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