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The origins and evolution of Islamic law / Wael B. Hallaq.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Themes in Islamic law ; 1.Publication details: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2005.Description: 1 online resource (ix, 234 pages) : mapsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 0511264844
  • 9780511264849
  • 9780511265563
  • 0511265565
  • 0511263260
  • 9780511263262
  • 9780511818783
  • 0511818785
  • 9786610749607
  • 6610749604
  • 1280749601
  • 9781280749605
  • 0511308728
  • 9780511308727
  • 0511264070
  • 9780511264078
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Origins and evolution of Islamic law.DDC classification:
  • 340.5909 23/eng/20240109
LOC classification:
  • KBP55 .H35 2004eb
NLM classification:
  • KBP 55
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
  • 86.14
  • coll1
  • cci1icc
  • KD600 HAL
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction -- 1. The pre-Islamic Near East, Muhammad and Quranic law -- 2. The emergence of an Islamic legal ethic -- 3. The early judges, legal specialists and the search for religious authority -- 4. The judiciary coming of age -- 5. Prophetic authority and the modification of legal reasoning -- 6. Legal theory expounded -- 7. The formation of legal schools -- 8. Law and politics: caliphs, judges and jurists -- Conclusion.
Summary: Covering more than three centuries of legal history, this study presents an important account of how Islam developed its own law from ancient Near Eastern legal cultures, Arabian customary law and Quranic reform. The book explores the interplay between law and politics, demonstrating how the jurists and ruling elite led a symbiotic existence that paradoxically allowed Islamic law to become uniquely independent of the "state."
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)181791

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- 1. The pre-Islamic Near East, Muhammad and Quranic law -- 2. The emergence of an Islamic legal ethic -- 3. The early judges, legal specialists and the search for religious authority -- 4. The judiciary coming of age -- 5. Prophetic authority and the modification of legal reasoning -- 6. Legal theory expounded -- 7. The formation of legal schools -- 8. Law and politics: caliphs, judges and jurists -- Conclusion.

Covering more than three centuries of legal history, this study presents an important account of how Islam developed its own law from ancient Near Eastern legal cultures, Arabian customary law and Quranic reform. The book explores the interplay between law and politics, demonstrating how the jurists and ruling elite led a symbiotic existence that paradoxically allowed Islamic law to become uniquely independent of the "state."

Print version record.

English.

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