Body of text : the emergence of the Sunnī law of ritual purity / / Marion Holmes Katz

• Autore: Katz Marion Holmes <1967->
• Pubblicazione: Albany : , : State University of New York Press, , 2002; ©2002
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (viii, 275 pages)
• Disciplina: 297.3/8
• Soggetto topico: Islam - Customs and practices; Purity, Ritual - Islam
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-270) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Body of Text: The Emergence of the Sunni Law of Ritual Purity""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""The Comprehensiveness of the Law""; ""The Historical Background""; ""Methodological Developments""; ""The Case of Islamic Law""; ""Approach to the Sources""; ""1. Quranic Rules of Purity and the Covenantal Community""; ""The Biblical Example""; ""The Quranic Material: Surat al-Maida""; ""Patterns within the Quran""; ""Conclusions""; ""2. Interpreting the Quranic Text""; ""The Problem""; ""When You Rise to Pray""; ""Wipe Your Heads and Your Feet . . . "" ; ""If You Have Touched Women . . . "" ""Conclusion: Revealed Text and Personal Example in the Law of Purity""; ""3. Cancelers of Wudu and the Boundaries of the Body""; ""Wudu from Cooked Food""; ""Wudu from Touching the Genitals""; ""Blood and Other Bodily Issues""; ""Conclusions""; ""4. Substantive Impurity and the Boundaries of Society""; ""The Fluidity of the Law""; ""Women, Nonbelievers, and the Dead""; ""Children of Adam""; ""Purity and Gender""; ""Conclusions""; ""Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""
• Sommario/riassunto: Reconstructs the formative debates concerning ritual purity in Islamic law and practice.
• Titolo autorizzato: Body of text
• ISBN: 9780791488577; 0791488578
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910963008903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: SUNY Series in Medieval Middle East History