The Ḥāshiya in Islamic Law: A Sketch of the Shāfiʿī Literature
This essay presents a survey of legal ḥawāshī (glosses) produced by Shāfiʿī jurists between the fifteenth and twentieth centuries. I outline the particular features of the legal ḥāshiya, the kind of legal reasoning that it promoted, and the structure of scholastic authority within the legal school t...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2013
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Oriens
Year: 2013, Volume: 41, Issue: 3/4, Pages: 289-315 |
| Further subjects: | B
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B Shāfiʿism B Authority B Islamic Law B ḥāshiya |
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| Summary: | This essay presents a survey of legal ḥawāshī (glosses) produced by Shāfiʿī jurists between the fifteenth and twentieth centuries. I outline the particular features of the legal ḥāshiya, the kind of legal reasoning that it promoted, and the structure of scholastic authority within the legal school that it embodied. I argue that the rise and decline of the ḥāshiya genre is reflective of broader trends in the evolution of Islamic scholarship. |
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| ISSN: | 1877-8372 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Oriens
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/18778372-13413404 |