TY  - BOOK
AU  - Reid,Megan H.
TI  - Law and piety in medieval Islam
T2  - Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization
SN  - 9780511843532
AV  - BP188 .R45 2013eb
U1  - 297.5/70902297.570902 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Cambridge, New York, NY
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Islam
KW  - Customs and practices
KW  - Spiritual life
KW  - Muslims
KW  - Conduct of life
KW  - Islamic law
KW  - Muslim scholars
KW  - Biography
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Title from publishers bibliographic system (viewed 19 Jun 2013); Includes bibliographical references and index; Cover; Law and Piety in Medieval Islam; Series; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Devotional Piety and Islamic Law; The Meaning of Devotional Piety; Concentric Circles of Piety; Biography and the Challenges of Hagiography; 1 The Persistence of Asceticism; The Meaning of Medieval Asceticism; The Case of Celibacy; Contradictions; Was Women's Piety Distinct from That of Men?; 2 "Devote Yourselves to Deeds You Can Bear": Voluntary Fasting and Bodily Piety; Features of the Islamic Fast; Part I: Difficulty and Duration; Ascetic Diets, Legal Fasts; A Lacuna: How Much Fasting is Too Much Fasting?Motives and Benefits; Part II: The Case of the Perpetual Fast; Health and Excess; Bound and Collared; 3 Charity, Food, and the Right of Refusal; Charity and Table Fellowship; A Critique of Charity: The Glutton; Scrupulous Asceticism: Seeking the Licit; Problems of Livelihood; Juristic Ethics; God's Law vs. Substantive Law: Taxonomies of the Licit; Conclusion: The Scope of Ethical Asceticism; 4 The Devil at the Fountain: Problems of Ritual; Part I: Waswa.s and the Body; The Context; The Controversy: Shaykh al-. Ima.d and the Pitchers of Water; Devilish WhisperingsLegal Discourse and Symbolic Purity; Was Waswa.s a H.anbali. Problem?; Part II: Waswa.s and the World; Author and Victim: The Case of al-Salla.mi.; Conclusion: Triumphant Scrupulosity; Conclusion: Beyond Transgression, Beyond sunna; Part I: Excessive Piety and Transgression; Part II: Excessive Piety and the Sunna; Glossary; Bibliography; Primary Sources; Secondary Sources; Index; Series
N2  - This intimate portrayal of the devotional life in early medieval Islamic society demonstrates how Islamic law defined holy behavior
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