Hidden Bibliographic Details
| ISBN: | 9781139776370
1139776371
9781139779418
1139779419
9780511920509
0511920504
9781107009097
110700909X
9781139782401
1139782401
9781107529786
1107529786
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| Digital file characteristics: | data file
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-210) and index.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | "This pioneering study examines the process of reasoning in Islamic law. Some of the key questions addressed here include whether sacred law operates differently from secular law, why laws change or stay the same and how different cultural and historical settings impact the development of legal rulings. In order to explore these questions, the author examines the decisions of thirty jurists from the largest legal tradition in Islam: the Hanafi school of law. He traces their rulings on the question of women and communal prayer across a very broad period of time - from the eighth to the eighteenth century - to demonstrate how jurists interpreted the law and reconciled their decisions with the scripture and the sayings of the Prophet. The result is a fascinating overview of how Islamic law has evolved and the thinking behind individual rulings"--
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| Other form: | Print version: Sadeghi, Behnam, 1969- Logic of law-making in Islam 9781107009097
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