Research Catalog

Title

The search for God's law : Islamic jurisprudence in the writings of Sayf al-Dīn al-Āmidī / Bernard G. Weiss.

Author

Weiss, Bernard G.

Publication

Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, ©1992.

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Description

xxvi, 745 pages; 25 cm

Subject

• Āmidī, ʻAlī ibn Abī ʻAlī, 1156 or 1157-1233
• Āmidī, Alī ibn Abī Alī
• Āmidī, ʻAlī ibn Abī ʻAlī, 1156 or 1157-1233
• Āmidī, ʻAlī b. Abī ʻAlī al-, ca1156-1234
• Āmidī, ʻAlī Ibn-Abī-ʻAlī al-
• Islamic law > Interpretation and construction
• Islam and state
• Droit islamique > Interprétation
• Islam et État
• 86.10 history of law, law of different countries, areas and peoples
• Islam and state
• Islamic law > Interpretation and construction
• Islam
• Recht
• Islamitisch recht
• Sjiʻisme
• Islamic law
• Fiqh
• Droit islamique > Sources
• Geschichte 1180-1230
• Geschichte

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- Part I. Postulates. The theological postulates ; The fiqh postulates ; The Lugha-related postulates -- pt. II. The indicators of God's law. The Qurʼān and the Sunna ; The Ijmāʻ ; The transmission of texts ; Commands ; General and unqualified expressions ; Ambiguity, lucidity, and diversion to nonapparent meaning (taʼwīl) ; Implication ; Abrogation ; Analogy -- definition and conditions of validity ; Analogy : ascertaining the occasioning factor ; The defense of analogy ; Isitdlāl and the invalid indicators of the law -- pt. III. Mujtahids, muftīs and commoners. Ijtihād and the mujtahid ; Consultation and advice : the mujtahid as muftī -- pt. IV. The weighing of conflicting indicators -- Epilogue.

ISBN

• 087480356X
• 9780874803563

LCCN

90048326

OCLC

• 22488925
• SCSB-10431143

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library