Guy Burak

The Second Formation of Islamic Law

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Second Formation of Islamic Law offers a new periodization of Islamic legal history in the eastern Islamic lands.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Januar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 481g
• ISBN-13: 9781107462076
• ISBN-10: 110746207X
• Artikelnr.: 47739107

Autorenporträt

Guy Burak is the Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Librarian at New York University's Bobst Library. Previously, Burak was a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, and in the Islamic Legal Studies Program at Harvard Law School. His articles have appeared in the International Journal of Middle East Studies, Comparative Studies in Society and History, the Mediterranean Historical Review, and the Journal of Islamic Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; 1. Muft
s; 2. Genealogies and boundaries I: situating the imperial learned hierarchy within the H
anaf
jurisprudential tradition; 3. Genealogies and boundaries II: two responses from the Arab provinces of the empire; 4. Books of high repute; 5. Intra-madhhab plurality and the empire's legal landscape; Conclusion: the second formation of Islamic law.