Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Record:   Prev Next
Resources
More Information
Bestseller
BestsellerE-book

Title Islamic law in theory : studies on jurisprudence in honor of Bernard Weiss / edited by A. Kevin Reinhart and Robert Gleave ; with an appreciation by Peter Sluglett.

Publication Info. Leiden : Brill, 2014.

Item Status

Description 1 online resource (390 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Studies in islamic law and society ; volume 37
Studies in Islamic law and society ; v. 37.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note Tracing Nuance in Māwardī's al-Ahḳām al-Sultạ̄niyyah: Implicit Framing of Constitutional AuthorityIndex.
Contents Hapy Memories of Bernard Weis; Bibliography of the Writings of Bernard Weiss; The Spirit of Islamic Law: Introduction; Part One Law and Reason; The Wisdom of God's Law: Two Theories; La notion de wajh al-hịkmah dans les usụ̄l al-fiqh d'Abū Ishạ̄q al-Shīrāzī (m. 476/1083); Ritual Action and Practical Action: The Incomprehensibility of Muslim Devotional Action; "Istafti qalbaka wa in aftāka al-nasu wa aftūka:" *The Ethical Obligations of the Muqallid between Autonomy and Trust; Part Two Law and Religion; Sahṇūn's Mudawwanah and the Piety of the "SharĪʻah-minded.
Sins, expiation and non-rationality in Hạnafī and Shāfiʻī fiqhJurists' Responses to Popular Devotional Practices in Medieval Islam; Part Three Law and Language; Finding God and Humanity in Language: Islamic Legal Assessments as the Meeting Point of the Divine and Human; Literal Meaning and Interpretation in early Imāmī Law; "Genres" in the Kitāb al-Luqtạh of Ibn Rushd's Bidāyat al-mujtahid wa-nihāyat al-muqtasịd; Part Four Law: Diversity and Authority; Is There Something Postmodern About Usụ̄l Al-Fiqh? Ijmāʻ, Constraint, and Interpretive Communities.
Summary This book studies a range of Islamic texts, and employs contemporary legal, religious, and hermeneutical theory to study the methodology of Islamic law.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Language In English, French and Arabic.
Subject Islamic law.
Islamic law.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Added Author Reinhart, A. Kevin, 1952- editor.
Gleave, R. (Robert), editor.
Sluglett, Peter, writer of preface.
Weiss, Bernard G., honouree.
Other Form: Print version: Reinhart, A. Kevin. Islamic Law in Theory. Leiden : BRILL, 2014 9789004265196
ISBN 9789004265196 (electronic book)
9004265198 (electronic book)
9789004264809 (hardback : alkaline paper)
9004264809 (hardback : alkaline paper)