An introduction to Islamic law
The study of Islamic law can be forbidding prospect for those entering the field for the first time. Wael Hallaq, a leading scholar and practitioner of Islamic law, guides students through the intricacies of the subject in this absorbing introduction. The first half of the book is devoted to a discu...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge [u.a.]
Cambridge University Press
2009
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| In: | Year: 2009 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Islamic law
/ History
/ Introduction
B Islamic law |
| Further subjects: | B
Islamic Law
B Islamic Law History |
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| Summary: | The study of Islamic law can be forbidding prospect for those entering the field for the first time. Wael Hallaq, a leading scholar and practitioner of Islamic law, guides students through the intricacies of the subject in this absorbing introduction. The first half of the book is devoted to a discussion of Islamic law in its pre-modern natural habitat. The author expounds on the roles of jurists, who reasoned about the law, and of judges and others who administered justice; on how different legal schools came to be established, and on how a moral law functioned in early Muslim society generally. The second part explains how the law was transformed and ultimately dismantled during the colonial period. As the author demonstrates, this rupture necessitated its reinvention in the twentieth-century world of nation-states. In the final chapters, the author charts recent developments and the struggles of the Islamists to negotiate changes which have seen the law emerge as a primarily textual entity focused on fixed punishments and ritual requirements ... (Quelle: Text Verlagseinband / Verlag) |
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| Item Description: | Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 0521861462 |