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Record Nr.

UNISA996247919703316

Autore

Mallat Chibli

Titolo

The renewal of Islamic law : Muhammad Baqer as-Sadr, Najaf, and the Shi'i International / / Chibli Mallat

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 1993

ISBN

0-511-09843-X

0-511-58388-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 245 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Cambridge Middle East library ; ; 29

Disciplina

340.5/9

Soggetti

Islamic law - Economic aspects

Islam and politics

Law - Iran - Islamic influences

Shīʻah

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Feb 2016).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

General introduction: The law in the Islamic Renaissance and the role of Muhammad Baqer as-Sadr -- pt. I. Islamic law and the constitution. 1. Archetypes of Shi'i law. 2. On the origins of the Iranian constitution: Muhammad Baqer as-Sadr's 1979 treatises. 3. The first decade of the Iranian constitution: problems of the least dangerous branch -- pt. II. Islamic law, 'Islamic economics', and the interest-free bank. 4. Law and the discovery of 'Islamic economics'. 5. Muhammad Baqer as-Sadr and Islamic banking -- Conclusion: The costs of renewal.

Sommario/riassunto

This is the first comprehensive study of the life and works of Muhammad Baqer as-Sadr - an Iraqi scholar who made an important contribution to the renewal of Islamic law and politics in the contemporary Middle East. Executed in 1980, Sadr was the most articulate thinker and a major political actor in the revival of Shi'i learning, which placed Najaf in Southern Iraq at its centre. Dr Chibli Mallat examines the intellectual development of Sadr and his companions who included Ruhullah al-Khumaini and assesses Sadr's innovative approaches to the study of law, economics and banking. The author convincingly demonstrates how Sadr's ideas and activities were influential in the rise of political Islam across the Middle East and



played an important part in the Iranian revolution of 1979.