The logic of law-making in Islam : women and prayer in the legal tradition /

The logic of law-making in Islam : women and prayer in the legal tradition /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Sadeghi, Behnam, 1969-
Imprint:	Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Description:	1 online resource (xxi, 215 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization.
Subject:	Islamic law -- Methodology. Islamic law -- Philosophy. Islamic law -- Interpretation and construction. Islamic law -- Interpretation and construction. Islamic law -- Methodology. Islamic law -- Philosophy. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11831775

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ISBN:	9781139776370 1139776371 9781139779418 1139779419 9780511920509 0511920504 9781107009097 110700909X 9781139782401 1139782401 9781107529786 1107529786
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-210) and index. Print version record.
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"--
Other form:	Print version: Sadeghi, Behnam, 1969- Logic of law-making in Islam 9781107009097

Table of Contents:

A general model
Preliminaries
Women praying with men : adjacency
Women praying with women
Women praying with men : communal prayers
The historical development of Ḥanafī reasoning
From laws and values
The logic of law making
Appendix. The authenticity of early Ḥanafī texts : two books of al-Shaybānī.