[PDF] A History Of Islamic Legal Theories eBook

Author : Wael B. Hallaq
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 41,12 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780521599863

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Wael B. Hallaq has already established himself as one of the most eminent scholars in the field of Islamic law. In this book, first published in 1997, the author traces the history of Islamic legal theory from its early beginnings until the modern period. Initially, he focuses on the early formation of this theory, analysing its central themes and examining the developments which gave rise to a variety of doctrines. He concludes with a discussion of modern thinking about the theoretical foundations and methodology of Islamic law. In organisation, approach to the subject and critical apparatus, the book will be an essential tool for the understanding of Islamic legal theory in particular and Islamic law in general. This, in combination with an accessibility of language and style, will guarantee a readership among students and scholars and anyone interested in Islam and its evolution.

Author : Noel Coulson
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 10,43 MB
Release : 2014-03-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 0748696490

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The classic introduction to Islamic law, tracing its development from its origins,through the medieval period, to its place in modern Islam.

Author : Wael B. Hallaq
Publisher :
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 37,98 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Islamic law
ISBN : 9780511002021

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Wael B. Hallaq has already established himself as one of the most eminent scholars in the field of Islamic law. In this book, first published in 1997, the author traces the history of Islamic legal theory from its early beginnings until the modern period. Initially, he focuses on the early formation of this theory, analysing its central themes and examining the developments which gave rise to a variety of doctrines. He concludes with a discussion of modern thinking about the theoretical foundations and methodology of Islamic law. In organisation, approach to the subject and critical apparatus, the book will be an essential tool for the understanding of Islamic legal theory in particular and Islamic law in general. This, in combination with an accessibility of language and style, will guarantee a readership among students and scholars and anyone interested in Islam and its evolution.

Author : Bernard G. Weiss
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 36,41 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004120662

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This volume contains ground-breaking studies on such matters as the early development of legal theory in Islam, the emergence of "us l al-fiqh," theory vis-a-vis practice, various controversies among Muslim theorists, the construction of juristic authority, reformist concepts, and the role of "qaw cid."

Author : Joseph Edmund Lowry
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 20,83 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004163603

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This book offers a comprehensive reinterpretation of Sh?fi 's "Ris?la" and shows how Sh?fi sought to formulate an all-embracing hermeneutic that portrays the law as a tightly interlocking structure organized around defined interactions of the Qur n and the Sunna.

Author : Rumee Ahmed
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 26,35 MB
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0199640173

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In this book Rumee Ahmed shatters the prevailing misconceptions of the purpose and form of the Islamic legal treatise. Through a subtle interpretation of the work of major Islamic jurists, he reveals how the moral teachings of Islam were translated into a legal context in the critical, formative period of Islamic law.

Author : Wael B. Hallaq
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 34,39 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0521803322

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The history of Islamic law from pre-Islamic times across three centuries.

Author : Wael B. Hallaq
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 25,4 MB
Release : 2009-07-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 1139489305

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The study of Islamic law can be a forbidding prospect for those entering the field for the first time. Wael Hallaq, a leading scholar and practitioner of Islamic law, guides students through the intricacies of the subject in this absorbing introduction. The first half of the book is devoted to a discussion of Islamic law in its pre-modern natural habitat. The second part explains how the law was transformed and ultimately dismantled during the colonial period. In the final chapters, the author charts recent developments and the struggles of the Islamists to negotiate changes which have seen the law emerge as a primarily textual entity focused on fixed punishments and ritual requirements. The book, which includes a chronology, a glossary of key terms, and lists of further reading, will be the first stop for those who wish to understand the fundamentals of Islamic law, its practices and history.

Author : Wael B. Hallaq
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 19,94 MB
Release : 2001-07-02
Category : Law
ISBN : 0521803314

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Wael B. Hallaq is regarded as one of the leading scholars in the field of Islamic law. In a path-breaking new book, the author shows how authority guaranteed both continuity and change in Islamic law. While the role of the law schools in augmenting these processes was of the essence, the author demonstrates that it was the construction of the absolutist authority of the school founder, an image which he suggests was actually developed later in history, that maintained the foundations of school methodology and hermeneutics. The defence of that methodology gave rise to an infinite variety of individual legal opinions, ultimately accommodating changes in the law. Thus the author concludes that the mechanisms of change were embedded in the very structure of Islamic law, despite its essentially conservative nature. This book will be welcomed by specialists and scholars in Islamic law for its rigour and innovation.

Author : Wael B. Hallaq
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 34,28 MB
Release : 2022-02-23
Category : History
ISBN : 1000585042

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These studies by Wael Hallaq represent an important contribution to our understanding of the neglected field of medieval Islamic law and legal thought. Spanning the period from the 8th to the 16th centuries, they draw upon a wide range of original sources to offer both fresh interpretations of those sources and a careful evaluation of contemporary scholarship. The first articles expound the interrelated issues of legal reasoning, legal logic and the epistemology of the law. There follows a set of primarily historical studies, which question a series of widely held assumptions, while the last items explore issues of legal theory and methodology. One particular topic concerns the role of Shafi'i as the ’master architect’ of Islamic legal theory, and Professor Hallaq would finally argue that this image is in fact false and a creation of later centuries.