Rebecca Hernandez

Legal Thought of Jalāl Al-Dīn Al-Suyūṭī

Authority and Legacy

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Produktbeschreibung

This book looks at the thought of a key figure in Islamic history from the vantage point of different forms of authority. In addition to providing detailed textual analysis of al-Suyuti's legal writing in its historical context, the study also connects the pre-modern figure to contemporary debates in post-2011 Egypt.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780198805939
• ISBN-10: 0198805934
• Artikelnr.: 48502386

Autorenporträt

Rebecca Skreslet Hernandez received her Ph.D. from Georgetown University's Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies and taught previously at Georgetown University and at the College of William and Mary. Her primary research interests include Islamic law and society, religious authority, and medieval and modern Egypt.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* 1: Authority by Persuasion: Power Relations in al-Suyuti's Legal
Opinion on Scholarly Stipends
* 2: Authority by Association: Consensus vs. Ignorance in al-Suyuti's
Legal Opinion on Logic
* 3: Authority by Articulation: The Language of Religious Revival and
Reform in al-Suyuti's Tajdid Genre
* 4: Authority by Aggregation and Abstraction: The Pragmatics of
Communication in al-Suyuti's Book on Legal Precepts
* 5: Authority by Allusion: The Legacy of al-Suyuti in Contemporary
Egypt
* Conclusion