Book contents
- Islamic Law in Context
- Islamic Law in Context
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Islamic Legal Theory (Uṣūl al-Fiqh) and Related Genres
- Part II Islamic Jurisprudence (Fiqh) and Related Genres
- Part III Legal Opinions (Fatwās)
- Part IV Court Judgments and Other Court Documentation
- Part V Judicial Manuals and Reference Books
- Part VI Alternative Sources for Islamic Legal Studies
- Chapter 38 Introduction to Part VI
- Chapter 39 Reform of Islamic Law in Nineteenth-Century Afghanistan
- Chapter 40 ‘Permission to Teach’ the Law
- Chapter 41 Controversial and Uncontroversial Biographies in Rayḥānat al-Adab of Mīrzā Muḥammad ʿAlī Mudarris (d. 1373/1954)
- Chapter 42 Battle of the Qāḍīs
- Chapter 43 Aḥlām al-Naṣr and the Islamic State’s Justification for Execution by Burning
- Name Index
- Subject Index
- References
Chapter 41 - Controversial and Uncontroversial Biographies in Rayḥānat al-Adab of Mīrzā Muḥammad ʿAlī Mudarris (d. 1373/1954)
from Part VI - Alternative Sources for Islamic Legal Studies
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 November 2024
Book contents
- Islamic Law in Context
- Islamic Law in Context
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Islamic Legal Theory (Uṣūl al-Fiqh) and Related Genres
- Part II Islamic Jurisprudence (Fiqh) and Related Genres
- Part III Legal Opinions (Fatwās)
- Part IV Court Judgments and Other Court Documentation
- Part V Judicial Manuals and Reference Books
- Part VI Alternative Sources for Islamic Legal Studies
- Chapter 38 Introduction to Part VI
- Chapter 39 Reform of Islamic Law in Nineteenth-Century Afghanistan
- Chapter 40 ‘Permission to Teach’ the Law
- Chapter 41 Controversial and Uncontroversial Biographies in Rayḥānat al-Adab of Mīrzā Muḥammad ʿAlī Mudarris (d. 1373/1954)
- Chapter 42 Battle of the Qāḍīs
- Chapter 43 Aḥlām al-Naṣr and the Islamic State’s Justification for Execution by Burning
- Name Index
- Subject Index
- References
Summary
This chapter focuses on several short biographies excerpted from Persian Shīʿī biographical dictionary Rayḥānat al-Adab fī Tarājim al-Maʿrūfīn bi-l-Kunyā wa-l-Laqab (‘The Sweet Basil of Learning, concerning the biographies - tarājim - of the well-known, ordered by teknonym and nickname’) by the modern author Mīrzā Muḥammad Mudarris Khayābānī (d. 1373/1954). The work as a whole contains 4,624 biographies, arranged, alphabetically, but also by the various naming methods in Arabic. The selection presented in this chapter provides the reader with examples of unremarkable biographical entries, in the sense that the scholars are not controversial or problematic for the tradition in the view of the biographer.
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- Islamic Law in ContextA Primary Source Reader, pp. 419 - 433Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024
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