FROM REGIONAL TO PERSONAL SCHOOLS OF LAW? A REEVALUATION
Abstract Western scholars have long regarded the legal history of the second/eighth century and the early part of the third/ninth as being dominated by the so-called geographical schools. Since scholars also hold that the later schools of law were personal in nature, it is widely assumed that a tran...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Journals Online & Print: | Drawer...
|
| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
| Published: |
Brill
2001
|
| In: |
Islamic law and society
Year: 2001, Volume: 8, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-26 |
| Online Access: |
Volltext (JSTOR) Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Summary: | Abstract Western scholars have long regarded the legal history of the second/eighth century and the early part of the third/ninth as being dominated by the so-called geographical schools. Since scholars also hold that the later schools of law were personal in nature, it is widely assumed that a transformation took place from geographical schools to personal schools. In this article, I question these views, arguing (1) that geographical schools never existed; (2) that the later schools were not personal; and (3) that a transformation did in fact take place, albeit from individual juristic doctrines to doctrinal schools. |
|---|---|
| ISSN: | 1568-5195 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Islamic law and society
|
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/156851901753129656 |