1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990000976820403321

Autore

Colodny, Robert G.

Titolo

Frontiers of Science and Philosophy / Robert G. Colodny

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 1962

Disciplina

501

Locazione

FI1

Collocazione

4-082

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910453138203321

Autore

Sadeghi Behnam <1969->

Titolo

The logic of law-making in Islam : women and prayer in the legal tradition / / Behnam Sadeghi [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013

ISBN

1-139-88831-5

1-139-79378-0

1-139-78340-8

1-107-52978-6

1-139-77637-1

1-139-78240-1

0-511-92050-4

1-139-77941-9

1-139-77789-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxi, 215 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization

Disciplina

297.3/82082

Soggetti

Islamic law - Methodology

Islamic law - Philosophy

Islamic law - Interpretation and construction

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

A general model -- Preliminaries -- Women praying with men : adjacency -- Women praying with women -- Women praying with men : communal prayers -- The historical development of Ḥanafī reasoning -- From laws and values -- The logic of law making -- Appendix. The authenticity of early Ḥanafī texts : two books of al-Shaybānī.

Sommario/riassunto

This pioneering study examines the process of reasoning in Islamic law. Some of the key questions addressed here include whether sacred law operates differently from secular law, why laws change or stay the same and how different cultural and historical settings impact the development of legal rulings. In order to explore these questions, the author examines the decisions of thirty jurists from the largest legal tradition in Islam: the Hanafi school of law. He traces their rulings on the question of women and communal prayer across a very broad period of time - from the eighth to the eighteenth century - to demonstrate how jurists interpreted the law and reconciled their decisions with the scripture and the sayings of the Prophet. The result is a fascinating overview of how Islamic law has evolved and the thinking behind individual rulings.