Close Encounters: Some Preliminary Observations on the Transmission of Impurity in Early Sunnī Jurisprudence
Abstract The Prophet said, al-tahāra shatr al-īmān, "purity is half of faith." In this essay, I attempt to elucidate what appears to be a uniquely Islamic approach to the acquisition and impartation of ritually pollutive states. Based on a survey of relevant hadīth exempla and fiqh discuss...
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Brill
1999
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Islamic law and society
Year: 1999, Volume: 6, Issue: 3, Pages: 348-392 |
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