Intisar A. Rabb

Doubt in Islamic Law

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book considers the rarely studied but pervasive concepts of doubt that medieval Muslim jurists used to resolve problematic criminal cases.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 775g
• ISBN-13: 9781107080997
• ISBN-10: 1107080991
• Artikelnr.: 41609501

Autorenporträt

Intisar A. Rabb is Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and the director of its Islamic Legal Studies Program. She also holds an appointment as a Professor of History and as Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, Massachusetts.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; Part I. Institutional Structures and Doubt, Seventh-Sixteenth
Century CE: 1. The God of severity and lenity; 2. The rise of doubt; Part
II. Morality and Social Context, Eighth-Eleventh Century CE: 3. Hierarchy
and hudud laws, eighth-ninth century CE; 4. Doubt as moral discomfort,
tenth-eleventh century CE; Part III. The Jurisprudence of Doubt,
Eighth-Sixteenth Century CE: 5. Doubt as an element of Islamic criminal
law, eighth-eleventh century CE; 6. Substantive, procedural, and
interpretive doubt, eleventh-sixteenth century CE; 7. Strict textualism as
a limitation on doubt: Sunni opponents, eighth-eleventh century CE; 8.
Dueling theories of delegation and interpretation: Shi'i doubt,
tenth-sixteenth century CE; Conclusion: doubt in comparative and
contemporary context.