Junaid Quadri (Associate Professor of History and Director of Relig

Transformations of Tradition

Islamic Law in Colonial Modernity

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Produktbeschreibung

Transformations of Tradition probes how the encounter with colonial modernity conditioned Islamic jurists' conceptualizations of the shari'a. Focusing on the jurisprudential writings of Muhammad Bakhit al-Muti-i (1854-1935), Mufti of Egypt for a time, Junaid Quadri locates a remarkable series of foundational intellectual shifts that throw into doubt the possibility of reading the modern trajectory of Islamic law through the lens of a continuous tradition. Through close readings of complex legal texts and mining archives oft-neglected in the field, this carefully researched study uncovers a shari'a that is neither a medieval holdover nor merely a pragmatic concession to the demands of a new world, but rather is deeply entangled with the epistemological commitments of colonial modernity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 160mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 380g
• ISBN-13: 9780197754580
• ISBN-10: 0197754589
• Artikelnr.: 68051360

Autorenporträt

Junaid Quadri is Associate Professor of History and Director of Religious Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1: Partisanship, territorialism and transregional networks of belonging
Chapter 2: Authority, ijtihad and temporality
Chapter 3: Colonialism, translation and seduction
Chapter 4: Science, perception and objectivity
Chapter 5: Religion, the secular and language
Conclusion
Bibliography