An introduction to Islamic law
The study of Islamic law can be forbidding prospect for those entering the field for the first time. Wael Hallaq, a leading scholar and practitioner of Islamic law, guides students through the intricacies of the subject in this absorbing introduction. The first half of the book is devoted to a discu...
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| Type de support: | Imprimé Livre |
| Langue: | Anglais |
| Service de livraison Subito: | Commander maintenant. |
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| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
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Cambridge [u.a.]
Cambridge University Press
2009
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| Dans: | Année: 2009 |
| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Droit islamique
/ Histoire
/ Introduction
B Droit islamique |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Islamic Law
B Islamic Law History |
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| Édition parallèle: | Erscheint auch als: Introduction to Islamic law: |
| Résumé: | The study of Islamic law can be forbidding prospect for those entering the field for the first time. Wael Hallaq, a leading scholar and practitioner of Islamic law, guides students through the intricacies of the subject in this absorbing introduction. The first half of the book is devoted to a discussion of Islamic law in its pre-modern natural habitat. The author expounds on the roles of jurists, who reasoned about the law, and of judges and others who administered justice; on how different legal schools came to be established, and on how a moral law functioned in early Muslim society generally. The second part explains how the law was transformed and ultimately dismantled during the colonial period. As the author demonstrates, this rupture necessitated its reinvention in the twentieth-century world of nation-states. In the final chapters, the author charts recent developments and the struggles of the Islamists to negotiate changes which have seen the law emerge as a primarily textual entity focused on fixed punishments and ritual requirements ... (Quelle: Text Verlagseinband / Verlag) |
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| Description: | Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 0521861462 |