The Ḥāshiya in Islamic Law: A Sketch of the Shāfiʿī Literature

This essay presents a survey of legal ḥawāshī (glosses) produced by Shāfiʿī jurists between the fifteenth and twentieth centuries. I outline the particular features of the legal ḥāshiya, the kind of legal reasoning that it promoted, and the structure of scholastic authority within the legal school t...

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Main Author: Shamsy, Ahmed El (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2013
In: Oriens
Year: 2013, Volume: 41, Issue: 3/4, Pages: 289-315
Further subjects:B Commentary
B Shāfiʿism
B Authority
B Islamic Law
B ḥāshiya
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Summary:This essay presents a survey of legal ḥawāshī (glosses) produced by Shāfiʿī jurists between the fifteenth and twentieth centuries. I outline the particular features of the legal ḥāshiya, the kind of legal reasoning that it promoted, and the structure of scholastic authority within the legal school that it embodied. I argue that the rise and decline of the ḥāshiya genre is reflective of broader trends in the evolution of Islamic scholarship.
ISSN:1877-8372
Contains:Enthalten in: Oriens
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/18778372-13413404