Omar Farahat

Foundation of Norms in Islamic Jurisprudence and Theology (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

In this book, Omar Farahat presents a new way of understanding the work of classical Islamic theologians and legal theorists who maintained that divine revelation is necessary for the knowledge of the norms and values of human actions. Through a reconstruction of classical AshE ari-MuE tazili debates on the nature and implications of divine speech, Farahat argues that the AshE ari attachment to revelation was not a purely traditionalist position. Rather, it was a rational philosophical commitment emerging from debates in epistemology and theology. He further argues that the particularity of this model makes its distinctive features helpful for contemporary scholars who defend a form of divine command theory. Farahat's volume thus constitutes a new reading of the issue of reason and revelation in Islam and breaks new ground in Islamic theology, law and ethics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108753197
• Artikelnr.: 57076018

Autorenporträt

Omar Farahat is Assistant Professor of Law at McGill University, Montreal.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: classical Islamic thought and the promise of post-secularism;
Part I. Epistemological and Metaphysical Foundations: 1. What do we know
without revelation? The epistemology of divine speech; 2. God in relation
to us: the metaphysics of divine speech; 3. The nature of divine speech in
classical theology; Part II. The Construction of Norms in Islamic
Jurisprudence: 4. The nature of divine commands in classical legal theory;
5. Divine commands in the imperative mood; 6. The persistence of natural
law in Islamic jurisprudence.