Comparing religions through law : Judaism and Islam / / Jacob Neusner and Tamara Sonn

• Autore: Neusner Jacob <1932, >
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1999
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (276 p.)
• Disciplina: 296.1/8
• Soggetto topico: Jewish law; Islamic law; Jihad; Zionism
• Soggetto geografico: Palestine In Judaism
• Altri autori: SonnTamara <1949->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; Comparing Islam and Judaism in particular; The monotheist religions, Judaism, Christianity, Islam; Which Judaism, which Islam, and why?; Category formations: comparing incomparables; The authoritative legal documents of Judaism and Islam; The Written and the Oral Torah: scripture, the Mishnah and the Talmuds; Islamic counterparts; Conclusions; The intellectual sources of the law; Islam: consensus, reasoning, exceptions; Judaic counterparts: exegesis, logic, argument, dialectics; Conclusions; The working of the law: institutions ; The Israelite court system in the legal narrative of Judaism The Islamic court in the legal narrative of Islam; Conclusions; The working of the law: personnel; Islam; Judaism: the sage; Conclusions; Disproportions; Temple law and sacrifice; Slave laws in Islam and in Judaism; Sacred time/Sabbath in Judaism and sacred time/pilgrimage in Islam; Conclusions; Unique categories; Enlandisement (Judaism); Jerusalem and the lack of enlandisement in Islam; Jihad (Islam); The sage and Torah study in Judaism; Khilafah and the legal scholars in Islam; History, time, and paradigm in Judaism ; History in Islam Epilogue: the consequences of comparison; Judaism and Islam: companions in the context of world religions; Notes; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Comparing Religions Through Law offers a ground- breaking study which compares these two religions through shared dominant structures. In the case of Judaism and Islam the dominant structure is law.Comparing Religions Through Law presents an innovative and sometimes controversial study of the comparisons and contrasts between the two religions and offers an example of how comparative religious studies can provide grounds for mutual understanding.
• Titolo autorizzato: Comparing religions through law
• ISBN: 1-134-64774-3; 9780203259998; 0-203-20267-8; 0-203-25999-8; 1-280-32566-6; 1-134-64775-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910783645303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II