Kecia Ali

Imam Shafi'i

Scholar and Saint

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Muhammad ibn Idris al-Shafi'i (767-820) was one of Islam's foundational legal thinkers. Shafi'i considered law vital to social and cosmic order: the key obligation of each Muslim was to obey God. This study sketches his life in his intellectual and social context.

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Produktdetails

• Makers of the Muslim World
• Verlag: Oneworld Publications
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 139mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 262g
• ISBN-13: 9781851684380
• ISBN-10: 1851684387
• Artikelnr.: 33553968

Autorenporträt

Kecia Ali is Professor of Religion at Boston University. She is a world authority on Islamic jurisprudence, and author of Sexual Ethics and Islam: Feminist Reflections on Qur'an, Hadith and Jurisprudence.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
 
1 Arabian Years
2 From Student to Shaykh
3 Legal Theory I: The Risala, Sunna, and Hadith
4 Legal Theory II: Analogy, Ijtihad, and Consensus
5 The Ummand Substantive Law
6 Saint Shafi`i
Conclusion
 
Further Reading
Bibliography
Index