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The logic of law-making in Islam : women and prayer in the legal tradition / Behnam Sadeghi.

By: Series: Cambridge studies in Islamic civilizationPublisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013Description: 1 online resource (xxi, 215 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781139776370 (electronic bk.)
  • 1139776371 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Logic of law-making in IslamDDC classification:
  • 297.3/82082 23
LOC classification:
  • KBP144 .S227 2013eb
Other classification:
  • HIS026000
Online resources:
Contents:
A general model -- Preliminaries -- Women praying with men : adjacency -- Women praying with women -- Women praying with men : communal prayers -- The historical development of Ḥanafī reasoning -- From laws and values -- The logic of law making -- Appendix. The authenticity of early Ḥanafī texts : two books of al-Shaybānī.
Summary: "This pioneering study examines the process of reasoning in Islamic law. Some of the key questions addressed here include whether sacred law operates differently from secular law, why laws change or stay the same and how different cultural and historical settings impact the development of legal rulings. In order to explore these questions, the author examines the decisions of thirty jurists from the largest legal tradition in Islam: the Hanafi school of law. He traces their rulings on the question of women and communal prayer across a very broad period of time - from the eighth to the eighteenth century - to demonstrate how jurists interpreted the law and reconciled their decisions with the scripture and the sayings of the Prophet. The result is a fascinating overview of how Islamic law has evolved and the thinking behind individual rulings"-- Provided by publisher.
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"This pioneering study examines the process of reasoning in Islamic law. Some of the key questions addressed here include whether sacred law operates differently from secular law, why laws change or stay the same and how different cultural and historical settings impact the development of legal rulings. In order to explore these questions, the author examines the decisions of thirty jurists from the largest legal tradition in Islam: the Hanafi school of law. He traces their rulings on the question of women and communal prayer across a very broad period of time - from the eighth to the eighteenth century - to demonstrate how jurists interpreted the law and reconciled their decisions with the scripture and the sayings of the Prophet. The result is a fascinating overview of how Islamic law has evolved and the thinking behind individual rulings"-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-210) and index.

A general model -- Preliminaries -- Women praying with men : adjacency -- Women praying with women -- Women praying with men : communal prayers -- The historical development of Ḥanafī reasoning -- From laws and values -- The logic of law making -- Appendix. The authenticity of early Ḥanafī texts : two books of al-Shaybānī.

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