Law and Education in Medieval Islam

by Lowry, Joseph E.; Stewart, Devin J.; Toorawa, Shawkat M.; Makdisi, George

• ISBN13: 9780906094518
• ISBN10: 0906094518
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-02-01
• Publisher: Gibb Memorial Trust

Summary

Ten essays were written in honour of George Makdisi, by his former students at the University of Pennsylvania. George Makdisi was one of the great historians of Islamic law, theology and education, as well as of Islam's teaching institutions and practices. The theme of legal education, and its place in classical Islamic civilization, forms the central focus of the volume.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	vi
Abbreviations and Conventions	vii
Contributors	viii
al-Anwar al-qudsiyah fi al-ahwal al-Maqdisiyah	ix
Preface: The Trail and Scent of Learning	xi
Edward Peters
Colleges of Law and the Institutions of Medieval Sunni Islam	1	(6)
Joseph Lowry
Devin Stewart
Shawkat Toorawa
Nomos kai paideia: A Bibliography of George Makdisi's Publications	7	(11)
Shawkat Toorawa
Discipline and Duty in a Medieval Muslim Elementary School: Ibn Hajar al-Haytami's Taqrir al-maqal	18	(15)
Sherman Jackson
The Etiquette of Learning in the Early Islamic Study Circle	33	(12)
Christopher Melchert
The Doctorate of Islamic Law in Mamluk Egypt and Syria	45	(46)
Devin Stewart
A Portrait of 'Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi's Education and Instruction	91	(19)
Shawkat Toorawa
Medieval Islamic Legal Education as Reflected in the Works of Sayf al-Din al-Amidi	110	(18)
Bernard Weiss
The Reception of al-Shafi'i's Concept of Amr and Nahy in the Thought of His Student al-Muzani	128	(22)
Joseph Lowry
Islamic Education and the Transmission of Knowledge in Muslim Sicily	150	(24)
William Granara
The Madrasah and the Islamization of Anatolia Before the Ottomans	174	(18)
Gary Leiser
Index	192