Early Islamic legal theory [[electronic resource] ] : the Risāla of Muḥammad ibn Idrīs al-Shāfiʻī / / by Joseph E. Lowry

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910453550203321
• Autore: Lowry Joseph E (Joseph Edmund)
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2007
• ISBN: 1-281-93985-4; 9786611939854; 90-474-2389-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (459 p.)
• Collana: Studies in Islamic law and society, , 1384-1130 ; ; v. 30
• Disciplina: 340.5/9
• Soggetti: Islamic law - Interpretation and construction; Shafiites; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [387]-399) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Shāfiʻī's concept of the Bayān -- Two hermeneutical techniques -- Prophetic sunna and hadith in the Risāla -- The Qurān in Shāfiʻī's Risāla -- Shāfiʻī's epistemology -- Internal evidence for the Risāla's polemical context -- Ijmā in the Risāla -- The Risāla and its relationship to mature Uml al-Fiqh.
• Sommario/riassunto: The Risāla of al-Shāfiʿī (d. 204/820), the earliest preserved work of Islamic legal theory, has been understood in previous scholarship as either the elaboration of a hierarchy of sources of law (Qurʾān, Sunna, consensus, and analogical reasoning) or an extended defense of the Sunna. Through a careful rereading of this celebrated text, this book offers a comprehensive reinterpretation of the Risāla , in which Shāfiʿī formulated an all-encompassing hermeneutic that portrays the law as a tightly interlocking structure organized around defined interactions of the Qurʾān and the Sunna. Topics covered include Shāfiʿī’s creative account of the law’s architectonics, hermeneutical techniques, legal epistemology, relationship to kalām , and the role of consensus ( ijmāʿ ).