Innovation, Influence, and Borrowing in Mamluk-Era Legal Maxim Collections: The Case of Ibn ʿAbd al-Salām and al-Qarāfī
Recent scholarship has emphasized the contributions of the great Maliki jurist Shihāb al-Dīn al-Qarāfī (d. 684/1285) to Islamic legal thought. However. al-Qarāfī's compilation of legal maxims and distinctions, al-Furūq, has not yet been studied, nor has the collection of his teacher, the promin...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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American Oriental Society
[2020]
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Journal of the American Oriental Society
Year: 2020, Volume: 140, Issue: 4, Pages: 927-954 |
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| Summary: | Recent scholarship has emphasized the contributions of the great Maliki jurist Shihāb al-Dīn al-Qarāfī (d. 684/1285) to Islamic legal thought. However. al-Qarāfī's compilation of legal maxims and distinctions, al-Furūq, has not yet been studied, nor has the collection of his teacher, the prominent Shafi'i jurist Ibn 'Abd al-Salām (d. 660/1262), known as al-Qawā'id al-kubrā. Furthermore, the original thought of Ibn 'Abd al-Salām and his formative influence on al-Qarāfī have been understated. This article compares their two works to demonstrate that al-Qarāfī based his collection in large part on Ibn 'Abd al-Salām's al-Qawā'id and it examines the techniques that al-Qarāfī used, which included reordering, refining, and supplementing borrowed maxims, and anonymizing references to his teacher. Most salient, however, is al-Qarāfīs “Malikization” of maxims, which entailed replacing Shafi'i doctrines and authorities with their Maliki counterparts and deploying maxims to defend Maliki doctrines. The article concludes by explaining al-Qarāfī's authorial choices in light of his Maliki affiliation and the politics between the legal schools in Mamluk Cairo. |
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| ISSN: | 2169-2289 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: American Oriental Society, Journal of the American Oriental Society
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.7817/jameroriesoci.140.4.0927 |