Canonization of Islamic Law
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Canonization of Islamic Law
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The Canonization of Islamic Law tells the story of the birth of classical Islamic law in the eighth and ninth centuries CE. It shows how an oral normative tradition embedded in communal practice was transformed into a systematic legal science defined by hermeneutic analysis of a clearly demarcated scriptural canon. This transformation was inaugurated by the innovative legal theory of Muḥammad b. Idrīs al-Shāfiʿī (d. 820 CE), and it took place against the background of a crisis of identity and religious authority in ninth-century Egypt. By tracing the formulation, reception, interpretation, and spread of al-Shāfiʿī's ideas, the author demonstrates how the canonization of scripture that lay at the heart of al-Shāfiʿī's theory formed the basis for the emergence of legal hermeneutics, the formation of the Sunni schools of law, and the creation of a shared methodological basis in Muslim thought.
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- Cambridge University Pres Brand
- Jul 30, 2015 Pub Date:
- 1107546079 ISBN-10:
- 9781107546073 ISBN-13:
- English Language
- 1107546079 ISBN-10
- 9781107546073 ISBN-13
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- 5.98 in * 0.55 in * 9.02 in Dimensions:
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