The Sunna and its status in Islamic law : the search for a sound hadith /

The Sunna and its status in Islamic law : the search for a sound hadith /

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Imprint:	Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. ©2015
Description:	vi, 256 pages ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Palgrave series in Islamic theology, law, and history Palgrave series in Islamic theology, law, and history.
Subject:	Islamic law -- Sources. Hadith -- Authorities. Hadith -- Authorities. Sunna.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10386328

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Other authors / contributors:	Duderija, Adis, 1977- editor.
ISBN:	9781137376459 1137376457
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages [233]-249) and index.
Summary:	"How exactly are the various proponents of contemporary Muslim reformist thought employing the concept of Maqasid al Shari'a for the purposes of their reformist agenda? How useful or effective is the concept of Maqasid Al Shari'a, understood as both as a classical legal hermeneutical construct developed by premodern Islamic legal theoreticians, as well as its contemporary re-conceptualizations in meeting the challenges Muslim reformist thought is responding and seeking to find solutions to ? This volume is unique in critically examining the employment of maqasid al shari'a in contemporary Muslim reformist thought in relation to number of specific philosophical, legal, ethical, social and political issues"-- "The concept of Sunna, as one of the two normative fountainheads of the Islamic tradition, has fundamental importance in understanding nearly all of the branches of Islamic knowledge including Islamic law and politics. This book equips us with a comprehensive overview of the nature and the scope of the concept of Sunna both in pre-modern and modern Islamic discussions on the topic. In this context the discussion often focuses on the conceptual, epistemological and hermeneutical relationship between the concepts of Sunna and that of concept of a sound (sahih) hadith as understood in various Sunni madhahib as well as in early Islamic history and theology"--

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Summary:	This volume provides an overview of the nature and scope of the concept of Sunna both in pre-modern and modern Islamic discussions. The main focus is on shedding more light on the context in which the term Sunna in the major works of Islamic law and legal theory across all of the major madhahib was employed during the first six centuries Hijri.
Physical Description:	vi, 256 pages ; 23 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages [233]-249) and index.
ISBN:	9781137376459 1137376457