TY - BOOK AU - Sadeghi,Behnam TI - The logic of law-making in Islam: women and prayer in the legal tradition T2 - Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization SN - 9781139776370 (electronic bk.) AV - KBP144 .S227 2013eb U1 - 297.3/82082 23 PY - 2013/// CY - Cambridge PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Islamic law KW - Methodology KW - Philosophy KW - Interpretation and construction KW - HISTORY / Middle East / General KW - bisacsh KW - RELIGION / Islam / General KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 N2 - "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"-- UR - http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=494735 UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1210/2012012606-t.html UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1210/2012012606-d.html UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1210/2012012606-b.html ER -