The Formation of Islamic Law

Herausgeber: Hallaq, Wael B.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

These essays provide a general - if not wholly systematic - coverage of the emergence and evolution of law during the first three and a half centuries of Islam. On another level, they reflect the different and, at times, widely divergent scholarly approaches to this subject matter.

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Produktdetails

• The Formation of the Classical Islamic World
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 176mm x 254mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 936g
• ISBN-13: 9780860787143
• ISBN-10: 0860787141
• Artikelnr.: 57053592

Autorenporträt

Wael B. Hallaq is Professor of Islamic Law in the Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University, Canada

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: General editor's preface
Introduction
The Arab conquests and the formation of Islamic society, I. M. Lapidus
Pre-Islamic background and early development of jurisprudence, Joseph Schacht
Foreign elements in ancient Islamic law, Joseph Schacht
The birth-hour of Muslim law?: an essay in Exegesis, S.D. Goitein
Two legal problems bearing on the early history of the Qur'an, Patricia Crone
Unconditional manumission of slaves in early Islamic law: a hadith analysis, Ulrike Mitter
The role of non-Arab converts in the development of early Islamic law, Harald Motzki
The judiciary (Qadis) as a governmental-administrative tool in early Islam, Irit Abramski-Bligh
Islamic juristic terminology before Safi'i: a semantic analysis with special reference to Kufa, Zafar Ishaq Ansari
Was al-Shafi'i the master architect of Islamic jurisprudence?, Wael Hallaq
Muhammad b. Da'ud al-Zahiri's Manual of Jurisprudence, al-Wusul ila Ma'rifat al-Usul, Devin Stewart
Early Ijtihad and the later construction of authority, Wael Hallaq
The formation of the Sunni schools of law, Christopher Melchert
The Caliphs, the 'Ulama', and the law: defining the role and function of the Caliph in the early 'Abbasid Period, Muhammad Qasim Zaman
Index.