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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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- Description
- xx, 370 pages : illustration; 25 cm
- Summary
- The contributions of Bernard Weiss to the study of the principles of jurisprudence (uṣūl al-fiqh) are recognized in a series of contributions on Islamic legal theory. These thirteen chapters study a range of Islamic texts and employ contemporary legal, religious, and hermeneutical theory to study the methodology of Islamic law. Contributors include: Peter Sluglett, Ahmed El Shamsy, Éric Chaumont, A. Kevin Reinhart, Mohammad Fadel, Jonathan Brockopp, Christian Lange, Raquel M. Ukeles, Paul Powers, Robert Gleave, Wolfhart Heinrichs, Joseph Lowry, Rudolph Peters, Frank E. Vogel.
- Series Statement
- Studies in islamic law and society, 1384-1130 ; volume 37
- Uniform Title
- Studies in Islamic law and society ; v. 37.
- Subject
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9789004264809
- 9004264809
- 9004265198
- 9789004265196
- 9789004265196 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2013045972
- 10.1163/9789004265196
- OCLC
- ocn863127726
- 863127726
- SCSB-1792374
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library