Interpretation And Jurisprudence in Medieval Islam

by Calder,Norman

• ISBN13: 9780754659037
• ISBN10: 0754659038
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-12-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

At the time of his death in 1998, at the age of 47, Norman Calder had become the most widely-discussed scholar in his field. The present volume of twenty-one of his articles and book chapters represents the full richness and diversity of Calder's oeuvre, from his initial doctoral research on Shii Islam to his later more philosophical writings on Sunni hermeneutics, in addition to his numerous studies on early Islamic history and jurisprudence. Many of the articles in this volume have already become classics for the fields of Muslim jurisprudence and hermeneutics.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Methodology: History and nostalgia: reflections on John Wansbrough's The Sectarian Milieu

The limits of Islamic orthodoxy

Law

Tafsir from Tabari to Ibn Kathir: problems in the description of a genre, illustrated with reference to the story of Abraham

Early Islam: The sa'y and the jabin: some notes on Qur'an 37:102-3

Hinth, birr, tabarrur, tahannuth: an inquiry into the Arabic vocabulary of vows

From midrash to scripture: the sacrifice of Abraham in early Islamic tradition

The ummi in early Islamic juristic literature

The qurra' and the Arabic lexicographical tradition

The Barahima: literary construct and historical reality

Jurisprudence: a) Sunnism: Ikhtilaf and ijma' in Shafi'i's Risala

The significance of the term imam in early Islamic jurisprudence

Friday Prayer and the juristic theory of government: Sarakhsi, Shirazi, Mawardi

Exploring God's Law: Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Abi Sahl al-Sarakhsi on zakat

al-Nawawi's typology of muftis and its significance for a general theory of Islamic Law

The 'Uqud rasm al-mufti of Ibn al-'Abidin

b) Imami Shi'ism: Zakat in Imami Shi'i jurisprudence, from the 10th to the 16th century A.D.

Khums in Imami Shi'i jurisprudence, from the 10th to the 16th century A.D.

Accommodation and revolution in Imami Shi'i jurisprudence: Khumayni and the classical tradition

Legitimacy and accommodation in Safavid Iran: the juristic theory of Muhammad Baqir al-Sabzavari (d. 1090/1679)

Doubt and prerogative: the emergence of an Imami Shi'i theory of ijtihad

Indexes

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