Law And Piety In Medieval Islam
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Author | : Megan H. Reid |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2014-05-14 |
Genre | : Islam |
ISBN | : 9781107055322 |
This intimate portrayal of the devotional life in early medieval Islamic society demonstrates how Islamic law defined holy behavior.
Author | : Megan H. Reid |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Islam |
ISBN | : 9781107064829 |
This intimate portrayal of the devotional life in early medieval Islamic society demonstrates how Islamic law defined holy behavior.
Author | : Megan H. Reid |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2013-07-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107067111 |
The Ayyubid and Mamluk periods were two of the most intellectually vibrant in Islamic history. Megan H. Reid's book, which traverses three centuries from 1170 to 1500, recovers the stories of medieval men and women who were renowned not only for their intellectual prowess but also for their devotional piety. Through these stories, the book examines trends in voluntary religious practice that have been largely overlooked in modern scholarship. This type of piety was distinguished by the pursuit of God's favor through additional rituals, which emphasized the body as an instrument of worship, and through the rejection of worldly pleasures, and even society itself. Using an array of sources including manuals of law, fatwa collections, chronicles, and obituaries, the book shows what it meant to be a good Muslim in the medieval period and how Islamic law helped to define holy behavior. In its concentration on personal piety, ritual, and ethics the book offers an intimate perspective on medieval Islamic society.
Author | : Wael B. Hallaq |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2022-02-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1000585042 |
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.
Author | : Norman Calder |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2022-02-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1000560015 |
At the time of his death in 1998, at the age of 47, Norman Calder had become the most widely-discussed scholar in his field. This was largely focused on his monograph, Studies in Early Muslim Jurisprudence (Oxford, 1993), which boldly challenged existing theories about the origins of Islamic Law. The present volume of twenty-one of his articles and book chapters represents the full richness and diversity of Calder's oeuvre, from his initial doctoral research on Shii Islam to his later more philosophical writings on Sunni hermeneutics, in addition to his numerous studies on early Islamic history and jurisprudence. Calder's pioneering research, which was based on a sensitive reading of medieval texts fully informed by contemporary critical theory, often challenged the established assumptions of the day. He is known in particular for urging a reassessment of widely-held prejudices which underestimated the degree of creativity in medieval Islamic scholarship. Many of the articles in this volume have already become classics for the fields of Muslim jurisprudence and hermeneutics.
Author | : Kevin Jaques |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 327 |
Release | : 2006-04-01 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9047408470 |
This publication examines how a medieval Syrian Shāfiʿī jurist, Ibn Qāḍī Shuhbah (d. 851/1448), depicted the formation, decline, and the sources for the revival of Islamic law based on his Ṭabaqāt al-fuqahāʾ al-shāfiʿīyah (The Generations of the Shāfiʿī Jurists).
Author | : Ahmad Atif Ahmad |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2006-05-01 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9047409167 |
This volume addresses the structural interrelations of Islamic theoretical and practical legal reasoning, based on an analysis of six works of Islamic jurisprudence by authors who lived in Uzbekistan, Iraq, Syria, Palestine, Egypt, and Algeria between 970 and 1600 CE.
Author | : Christian Lange |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012-07-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781107404618 |
How was the use of violence against Muslims explained and justified in medieval Islam? What role did state punishment play in delineating the private from the public sphere? What strategies were deployed to cope with the suffering caused by punishment? These questions are explored in Christian Lange's in-depth study of the phenomenon of punishment, both divine and human, in eleventh-to-thirteenth-century Islamic society. The book examines the relationship between state and society in meting out justice, Muslim attitudes to hell and the punishments that were in store in the afterlife, and the legal dimensions of punishment. The cross-disciplinary approach embraced in this study, which is based on a wide variety of Persian and Arabic sources, sheds light on the interplay between theory and practice in Islamic criminal law, and between executive power and the religious imagination of medieval Muslim society at large.
Author | : Fedwa Malti-Douglas |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2022-04-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 100055774X |
From rulers to uninvited guests, from women to thieves, from dreams to names, from blindness to torture - in a series of ground-breaking studies, Power, Marginality, and the Body in Medieval Islam explores the multi-layered and complex textual universe of medieval Islam. The power of the ruler sits alongside the power of the trickster, as games of detection and verbal erudition are displayed for the edification of the reader. Humour is not lacking either as male and female characters indulge in various forms of wit that redefine and recast the sacred. For much of this world, the body reigns supreme: not only in illness and miracle cures but in displays of transgression and torture. Covering the range of literature from sacred text to history, biography and anecdote, this book provides a stimulating analysis of the world of medieval Islamic mentalités.
Author | : Mūʼil Yūsuf ʻIzz al-Dīn |
Publisher | : Gibb Memorial Trust |
Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780906094334 |
This book represents an explanation of the institution of hisba in medieval Islam, through one of the most used texts in the field. It includes a thorough translation of the text, written by a practising muhtasib, scholar and judge, together with accompanying biographical and bibliographical notes. The book is unique being the only English work on medieval Hanafi law of hisba.