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Chapter 7 - Introduction to Part II

from Part II - Islamic Jurisprudence (Fiqh) and Related Genres

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2024

Edited by
Omar Anchassi  and
Robert Gleave
Omar Anchassi
Affiliation:
Universität Bern, Switzerland
Robert Gleave
Affiliation:
University of Exeter
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Summary

This introduction to Section 2 of the volume on Islamic law (fiqh) explores some major themes of the genre and comments on its scope, including a representative bibliography of relevant recent titles on the subject.

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Islamic positive law (fiqh)SharīʿaTreatise (Risāla)FurūʿLegal school (madhhab).
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Islamic Law in Context
A Primary Source Reader
 , pp. 83 - 85
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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References

Azam, Hina. Sexual Violation in Islamic Law: Substance, Evidence, and Procedure (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
al-Azem, Talal. Rule-Formation and Binding Precedent in the Madhhab-Law Tradition: Ibn Quṭlūbughā’s Commentary on the Compendium of Qudūrī (Leiden: Brill, 2016).Google Scholar
Calder, Norman. Islamic Jurisprudence in the Classical Era (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Gleave, Robert. ‘Postclassical Legal Commentaries: The Elaboration of Tradition in Safavid Twelver Shiʿism’, in The Renaissance of Shiʿi Islam in the 15th–17th Centuries, ed. Daftary, Farhad and Esots, Janis (London: I. B. Tauris, forthcoming).Google Scholar
Johansen, Baber. Contingency in a Sacred Law: Legal and Ethical Norms in the Muslim Fiqh (Leiden: Brill, 1999).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Katz, Marion Holmes. Women in the Mosque: A History of Legal Thought and Social Practice (New York: Columbia University Press, 2014).Google Scholar
Sadeghi, Behnam. The Logic of Law Making in Islam: Women and Prayer in the Legal Tradition (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013).CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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