Wael B. Hallaq (Montreal McGill University)

The Origins and Evolution of Islamic Law

Herausgeber: Hallaq, Wael B.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Wael Hallaq treats the rise of Islamic law from 622 to 950 AD when the law and legal system reached maturity. This is the first book that offers such a wide coverage of Islamic legal history, with the intention of informing students and non-specialists in a readable and insightful narrative.

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Produktdetails

• Themes in Islamic Law
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 388g
• ISBN-13: 9780521005807
• ISBN-10: 0521005809
• Artikelnr.: 21782973

Autorenporträt

Wael B. Hallaq is Professor of Islamic Law at the Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University. He is the author of Ibn Taymiyya: Against the Greek Logicians (1993), A History of Islamic Legal Theories (1997) and Authority, Continuity and Change in Islamic Law (2001).

Inhaltsangabe

1. The pre-Islamic Near East, Muhammad and Quranic law
2. The emergence of an Islamic legal ethic
3. The early judges, legal specialists and the search for religious authority
4. The judiciary coming of age
5. Prophetic authority and the modification of legal reasoning
6. Legal theory expounded
7. The formation of legal schools
8. Law and politics: caliphs, judges and jurists
Conclusion.