Series/ Themes in Islamic Law
Editors: Professor Wael B. Hallaq
Themes in Islamic Law offers a series of state-of-the-art titles on the history of Islamic law, its application and its place in the modern world. The intention is to provide an analytic overview of the field with an emphasis on how law relates to the society in which it operates.
Contributing authors, who all have distinguished reputations in their particular areas of scholarship, have been asked to interpret the complexities of the subject for those entering the field for the first time.
Volumi pubblicati:
The Origins and Evolution of Islamic Law
Wael B.Hallaq - McGill University, Montreal
Long before the rise of Islam in the early seventh century, Arabia had come to form an integral part of the Near East. This book, covering more than three centuries of legal history, presents an important account of how Islam developed its own law while drawing on ancient Near Eastern legal cultures, Arabian customary law and Quranic reforms.
The development of the judiciary, legal reasoning and legal authority during the first century is discussed in detail as is the dramatic rise of prophetic authority, the crystallization of legal theory and the formation of the all-important legal schools. Finally the book explores the interplay between law and politics, explaining how the jurists and the ruling elite led a symbiotic existence that - seemingly paradoxically - allowed Islamic law and its application to be uniquely independent of the 'state'.
ISBN: 0521803322
Price: £40.00
Prezzo per sottoscrittori collana: £ 40.00 - 10%: £ 36.00
Volumi di prossima pubblicazione nella collana:
- Peters,R. Crime and Punishment in Islamic Law
- Tucker,J. Women, Family and Gender in Islamic Law
- Powers,DS. Organising Justice in the Islamic World, 1250-1750
- Welchman,L. Law, Society and Politics in the Modern Muslim World
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