Author: Anis Ahmad
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789694481777
Category : Muslim women
Languages : en
Pages : 158

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Author: Emine Enise Yakar
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000456374
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 312

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This book places context at the core of the Islamic mechanism of iftā’ to better understand the process of issuing fatwās in Muslim and non-Muslim countries, thus highlighting the connection between context and contemporaneity, on one hand, and the adaptable perception of Islamic law, on the other. The practice of iftā’ is one of the most important mechanisms of Islamic law that keeps Islamic thought about ethical and legal issues in harmony with the demands, exigencies and developments of time. This book builds upon the existing body of work related to the practice of iftā’, but takes the discussion beyond the current debates with the intent of unveiling the interaction between Islamic legal methodologies and different environmental contexts. The book specifically addresses the three institutions (Saudi Arabia’s Dār al-Iftā’, Turkey’s Diyanet and America’s FCNA) and their Islamic legal opinions (fatwās) in a comparative framework. This demonstrates the existence of complex and diverse ideas around similar issues within contemporary Islamic legal opinions that is further complicated by the influence of international, social, political, cultural and ideological contexts. The book thus unveils a more complicated range of interactive constituents in the process of the practice of iftā’ and its outputs, fatwās. The work will be of interest to academics and researchers working in the areas of Islamic law, Middle Eastern studies, religion and politics.

Author: Christopher Melchert
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004661182
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 273

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The Sunni schools of law are named for jurisprudents of the eighth and ninth centuries, but they did not actually function so early. The main division at that time was rather between adherents of ra'y and ḥadīth. No school had a regular means of forming students. Relying mainly on biographical dictionaries, this study traces the constitutive elements of the classical schools and finds that they first came together in the early tenth century, particularly with the work of Ibn Surayj (d. 306/918), al-Khallāl (d. 311/923), and a series of ḥanafī teachers ending with al-Karkhī (d. 340/952). Mālikism prospered in the West for political reasons, while the ẓāhirī and Jarīrī schools faded out due to their refusal to adopt the common new teaching methods. In this book the author fleshes out these historical developments in a manner that will be extremely useful to the field, while at the same time developing some new and highly original perspectives.

Author: Matthew S. Erie
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107053374
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 473

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This book is the first ethnographic study of Muslim minorities' practice of Islamic law in contemporary China.

Author: Bernard G. Weiss
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820328278
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 233

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Focuses on a Muslim legal science known in Arabic as usul al-fiqh. Whereas the kindred science of fiqh is concerned with the articulation of actual rules of law, this science attempts to elaborate the theoretical and methodological foundations of the law. It outlines the features of Muslim juristic thought.

Author: Ahmed E. Souaiaia
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791478572
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 214

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Argues that the rights of women in Muslim society are based on the preserved cultural standards of elites, not the ethical philosophy of the Quran.

Author: Ronak Husni
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134112742
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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An extremely timely translation of a seminal text on the role of women in Muslim society by the early twentieth century thinker al Taher al-Haddad. Considered as one of the first feminist works in Arab literature, this book will be of considerable interest to scholars of an early "feminist" tract coming from a Muslim in Arab society. Awarded the 2008 "World Award of the President of the Republic of Tunisia for Islamic Studies"

Author: Jamila Hussain
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781862874992
Category : Islamic law
Languages : en
Pages : 246

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Revised edition of : Islamic law and society ; 1999.

Author: Nadirsyah Hosen
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 1781003068
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 488

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The Research Handbook on Islamic Law and Society provides an examination of the role of Islamic law as it applies in Muslim and non-Muslim societies through legislation, fatwa, court cases, sermons, media, or scholarly debate. It illuminates the intersection of social, political, economic and cultural factors that inform Islamic Law across a number of jurisdictions. Chapters evaluate when and how actors and institutions have turned to Islamic law to address problems faced by societies in Muslim and, in some cases, Western states.

Author: Noel Coulson
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748696490
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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The classic introduction to Islamic law, tracing its development from its origins,through the medieval period, to its place in modern Islam.