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Islamic law in theory : studies on jurisprudence in honor of Bernard Weiss

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
Leiden : Brill, 2014.

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Additional Authors
  • Reinhart, A. Kevin, 1952-
  • Gleave, R. (Robert)
  • Sluglett, Peter
  • Weiss, Bernard G.
Description
xx, 370 pages : illustration; 25 cm
Series Statement
Studies in islamic law and society, 1384-1130 ; volume 37
Uniform Title
Studies in Islamic law and society ; v. 37.
Subject
  • Islamic law
  • Fikh
  • Islam
  • Recht
  • Rechtswissenschaft
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Language (note)
  • In English, French and Arabic.
Contents
Happy memories of Bernard Weiss / Peter Sluglett -- Bibliography of the writings of Bernard Weiss / Elizabeth Clark (comp.) -- The spirit of Islamic law : introduction / Robert Gleave and A. Kevin Reinhart -- The wisdom of God's law : two theories / Ahmed El Shamsy -- La notion de wajh al-ḥikmah dans les uṣūl al-fiqh d'Abū Isḥāq al-Shīrāzī (m. 476/1083) / Eric Chaumont -- Ritual action and practical action : the incomprehensibility of Muslim devotional action / A. Kevin Reinhart -- "Istafti qalbaka wa in aftāka al-nasu wa aftāka" : the ethical obligations of the muqallid between autonomy and trust / Mohammad Fadel -- Saḥnūn's Mudawwanah and the Piety of the "sharīʻah-minded" / Jonathan E. Brockopp -- Sins, expiation and non-rationality in Ḥanafī and Shāfiʻī fiqh / Christian Lange -- Jurists' responses to popular devotional practices in medieval Islam / Raquel M. Ukeles -- Finding god and humanity in language : Islamic legal assessments as the meeting point of the divine and human / Paul R. Powers -- Literal meaning and interpretation in early Imami law / Robert Gleave -- "Genres" in the Kitāb al-Luqṭah of Ibn Rushd's Bidāyat al-mujtahid wa-nihāyat al-muqtaṣid / Wolfhart Heinrichs -- Is there something postmodern about Uṣūl Al-Fiqh ijmāʻ? : constraint, and interpretive communities / Joseph Lowry -- Body and spirit of Islamic law : madhhab diversity in Ottoman documents from the Dakhla oasis, Egypt / Rudolph Peters -- Tracing nuance in Māwardī's al-Aḥkām al-Sulṭāniyyah : implicit framing of constitutional authority / Frank E. Vogel.
Call Number
JFE 16-1703
ISBN
  • 9789004264809
  • 9004264809
  • 9004265198
  • 9789004265196
LCCN
2013045972
OCLC
863127726
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.
Publisher
Leiden : Brill, 2014.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Studies in islamic law and society, 1384-1130 ; volume 37
Studies in Islamic law and society ; v. 37.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Language
In English, French and Arabic.
Added Author
Reinhart, A. Kevin, 1952- editor.
Gleave, R. (Robert), editor.
Sluglett, Peter, writer of preface.
Weiss, Bernard G., honouree.
Research Call Number
JFE 16-1703
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