Nurit Tsafrir

Collective Liability in Islam

The 'Aqila and Blood Money Payments

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Provides a close analysis of theʿAqila, a group collectively liable for blood money payments, in Islamic law and history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 154mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9781108498647
• ISBN-10: 1108498647
• Artikelnr.: 56756089

Autorenporträt

Nurit Tsafrir is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Middle Eastern and African History at Tel-Aviv University. She was previously a member of the Israel Institution for Advanced Studies in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton University, New Jersey. A specialist in medieval Islam focusing on the Hanafi school of law, she is the author of The History of an Islamic School of Law: The Early Spread of Hanafism (2004).

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. The Contribution of Islamic Values: 1. The modern perspective and the Islamic perspective, and their application to the law of homicide; 2. Major modifications of the Islamic law of homicide; 3. The '
qila's liability for homicide restricted, and justified; Part II. The Contribution of the State Administration: 4. The D
w
n innovation in Umayyad practice; 5. From Umayyad practice to
anaf
law; 6. The D
w
n innovation in
anaf
law; Part III. The Contribution of the Persians: 7. The Eastern Iranian
anaf
views on the '
qila: a presentation; 8. The Eastern Iranian
anaf
views: the general context; 9. The Eastern Iranian
anaf
views on the '
qila: an examination; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.