The logic of law making in Islam [electronic resource] : women and prayer in the legal tradition / Behnam Sadeghi.
2013
KBP144 .S227 2013
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Title
The logic of law making in Islam [electronic resource] : women and prayer in the legal tradition / Behnam Sadeghi.
Author
Sadeghi, Behnam, 1969-
ISBN
9781107009097
9781139782401 (electronic book)
9781139782401 (electronic book)
Publication Details
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Language
English
Description
xxi, 215 p. : ill.
Call Number
KBP144 .S227 2013
Dewey Decimal Classification
297.3/82082
Summary
"This pioneering study examines the process of reasoning in Islamic law. Some of the key questions addressed here include whether sacred law operates differently from secular law, why laws change or stay the same and how different cultural and historical settings impact the development of legal rulings. In order to explore these questions, the author examines the decisions of thirty jurists from the largest legal tradition in Islam: the Hanafi school of law. He traces their rulings on the question of women and communal prayer across a very broad period of time - from the eighth to the eighteenth century - to demonstrate how jurists interpreted the law and reconciled their decisions with the scripture and the sayings of the Prophet. The result is a fascinating overview of how Islamic law has evolved and the thinking behind individual rulings"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Series
Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization
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Table of Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1. A general model; 2. Preliminaries; 3. Women praying with men: adjacency; 4. Women praying with women; 5. Women praying with men: communal prayers; 6. The historical development of Hanafi reasoning; 7. From laws and values; 8. The logic of law making.