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Author Lowry, Joseph E. (Joseph Edmund)

Title Early Islamic legal theory : the Risāla of Muḥammad ibn Idrīs al-Shāfiʻī / by Joseph E. Lowry.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007.

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 443 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Studies in Islamic law and society, 1384-1130 ; v. 30
Studies in Islamic law and society ; v. 30.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-399) and indexes.
Contents Shāfiʻī's concept of the Bayān -- Two hermeneutical techniques -- Prophetic sunna and hadith in the Risāla -- The Qurān in Shāfiʻī's Risāla -- Shāfiʻī's epistemology -- Internal evidence for the Risāla's polemical context -- Ijmā in the Risāla -- The Risāla and its relationship to mature Uml al-Fiqh.
Summary The Risala of al-Shafii (d 204/820), the earliest preserved work of Islamic legal theory, has been understood in previous scholarship as the elaboration of a hierarchy of sources of law (Quran, Sunna, consensus, and analogical reasoning).
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Subject Shāfiʻī, Muḥammad ibn Idrīs, 767 or 768-820. Risālah fī uṛūl al-fiqh.
Shāfiʻī, Muḥammad ibn Idrīs, 767 or 768-820. Risālah fī uṛūl al-fiqh.
Risālah fī uṛūl al-fiqh (Shāfiʻī, Muḥammad ibn Idrīs)
Šāfiʻī, Abū-ʻAbdallāh Muḥammad Ibn-Idrīs aš.
Aš.
Šāfiʻī, Muḥammad Ibn-Idrīs aš-, 767-820.
Islamic law -- Interpretation and construction -- Early works to 1800.
Islamic law -- Interpretation and construction.
Chronological Term Early works to 1800
Subject Shafiites -- Early works to 1800.
Shafiites.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Early works.
Other Form: Print version: Lowry, Joseph E. (Joseph Edmund). Early Islamic legal theory. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007 9789004163607 9004163603 (DLC) 2007047588 (OCoLC)181862869
ISBN 9789047423898 (electronic book)
9047423895 (electronic book)
9789004163607 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
9004163603 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
Standard No. 10.1163/ej.9789004163607.i-443