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Abstract. Taxonomies of law often include a category called religious law. This chapter argues that this is useless, as is the Orientalist assumption that all law can be understood through the concepts generated by European legal systems. In fact, Islamic law is best seen as a kind of common law system, and a revised taxonomy of legal systems ...
Multi-Dimensionality of the System of Islamic Law 49 Purposefulness of the System of Islamic Law 51 3 islamic law, imams, & schools: a historical survey 56 Overview 3.i. What is ‘Islamic Law’? 56 Fiqh and Shari¢ah 56 Q¥n‰n and ¢Urf 57 The Importance of Differentiating between Fiqh and Shari¢ah 99 3.2. Schools of Islamic Law: A Brief ...
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May 5, 2013 · Summary. Introduction. The Islamic legal system consists of legal institutions, determinations, and practices that span a period of over fourteen hundred years and arise from a wide variety of cultural and geographic contexts that are as diverse as Arabia, Egypt, Persia, Bukhara, Turkey, Nigeria, Mauritania, Mali, Indonesia, and India.
- Khaled Abou El Fadl
- 2012
Oct 8, 2014 · What follows is an intricate and vastly historical biography or genealogy of the idea of divine law from the Greeks through Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, to modern secular formulations, rejecting any claim of a law that is not of human or conventional origin.
Summary. The sacred law of Islam, the Sharī‘a, occupies a central place in Muslim society, and its history runs parallel with the history of Islamic civilization. It has often been said that Islamic law represents the core and kernel of Islam itself and, certainly, religious law is incomparably more important in the religion of Islam than ...
- J. Schacht
- 1977
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.
Aug 29, 2013 · A unique collection of studies, the present volume sheds new light on central themes of Ibn Taymiyya's (661/1263-728/1328) and Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya's (691/1292-751/1350) thought and the relevance of their ideas to diverse Muslim societies. Investigating their positions in Islamic theology, philosophy and law, the contributions discuss a wide range of subjects, e.g. law and order; the divine ...
