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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 ...
- Birgit Krawietz
- August 29, 2013
Jul 28, 2023 · Islamic law embraces modes of interpretation, case-law in courts, fatwas and the art of judges and mufti s, and the practice of notary-publics. Within this multilayered tradition of legal genres, usul appears as the closest to a theory or philosophy of law. It stands as the quintessential Islamic legal theory.
- chibli.mallat@law.utah.edu
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May 31, 2023 · This entry focuses on the historical sources and formative moments in the development of Islamic theology and philosophy of religion. While most of the thinkers and ideas are from the classical period of Islam (ca. 800–1300) in a few cases we have extended our survey to the seventeenth century to include influential post-classical thinkers, like Mulla Ṣadrā.
Nov 2, 2016 · Abstract. The study of Islamic philosophy has recently entered a new and exciting phase. Both the received canon of Islamic philosophers and the grand narrative of the course of Islamic philosophy are in the process of being radically questioned and revised. The bulk of twentieth-century Western scholarship on Arabic or Islamic philosophy ...
Oct 25, 2017 · Some argue that true principles are found in other forms of Islamic literature about, for example, the role of human reason, the “objectives of the law” ( maqasid al-shariʿa ), or the “legal maxims” ( qawaʿid) according to which law is to be derived and assessed. There is a plurality of approaches to the subject of the “principles ...
Mar 13, 2021 · Second, “Islamic civilization” or “Islamic world” is partly a European and modern construction of a “different” neighbouring tradition, and it has historical as well as various factors behind it, religious, cultural, political, and economic. This conceptual construction has been adopted and is in use in the “Islamic world” too ...
Jan 1, 2005 · Four new books on Islam and law provide the occasion for reflection on legal and religious pluralism. Bringing together a more nuanced and complex understanding of religion — one not determined by Enlightenment ideologies of separation — and of law — one also freed of Enlightenment notions of positivism and secularism — provide opportunities for ways to re-think the cultures of ...
