Doctrine and Practice in Islamic Law: One Aspect of the Problem

N.J. Coulson

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Doctrine and Practice in Islamic Law: One Aspect of the Problem

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N.J. Coulson

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The biographer al-Mālikī reports that, in the year A.H. 171, Rūh b. Hatam, the governor of the Maghrib, offered the post of qādī to ‘Abd Allāh b. Farūk, a scholar-jurist of Qairawān. ‘Ibn Farūk firmly refused the offer. The governor, however, forced him to take his seat in the mosque and ordered the litigants to address their pleas to him, Ibn Farūk weeping the while and crying to them: “Have mercy upon me, that Allah may have mercy upon you”. When he thus refused to judge, the governor ordered that he be bound and taken up to the roof of the mosque: if he should then still refuse he was to be thrown over the edge.

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Information: Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 18 , Issue 2 , June 1956 , pp. 211 - 226

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X00106810 [Opens in a new window]
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^{page 211 note 1} Riyād al-Nufūs (ed. Husain Mu'nis), I, 118.

^{page 211 note 2} Muhammedanische Studien, II, 39 f.

^{page 211 note 3} ‘The office of kādi in the Ahkām Sultāniyya of Māwardi’, JRAS, 1910, 2, 775.Google Scholar

^{page 211 note 4} Organisation judiciaire en pays d'Islam, I, 480–7.

^{page 212 note 1} al-Mālikī, 104.

^{page 212 note 2} al-Mālikī, 96.

^{page 212 note 3} Khushānī, Kitāb al-Qudāt bi Qurtuba (ed. Ribera), 16.

^{page 212 note 4} Kindī, Kitāb al-Wulāt wa Kitāb al-Qudāt (ed. Guest), 311; see also 315.

^{page 212 note 5} Kindī, 470 f.

^{page 213 note 1} Tyan, 433 ff.

^{page 213 note 2} al-Mālikī, 68.

^{page 213 note 3} Kindī, 311.

^{page 213 note 4} Tyan, 485 f.

^{page 213 note 5} ‘Iyād, Madārik, Tabaqāt. MS No. 569–40 of the Qarawīyīn Library, Fez.

^{page 213 note 6} Kindī, 418.

^{page 213 note 7} Ibn Fathūn, Watha'iq, Bāb bayān mā jā'a fi'l qadā'. MS No. 3090–40 of the Qarawīyīn Library, Fez.

^{page 214 note 1} Khushānī, 52.

^{page 214 note 2} Kindī, 418.

^{page 214 note 3} Ibn Fathūn, loc. cit.

^{page 214 note 4} Khushānī, 27.

^{page 214 note 5} Tyan, 131 ff.

^{page 214 note 6} Kindī, 333.

^{page 214 note 7} See e.g. Kindī, 309. 348.

^{page 215 note 1} Kindī, 313.

^{page 215 note 2} J. Schaoht, in M. Khadduri and H. J. Liebesny (ed.), Law in the Middle East, I, 39 f.

^{page 215 note 3} Kindī, 356.

^{page 215 note 4} Kindī, 328.

^{page 215 note 5} Kindī, 367.

^{page 216 note 1} See e.g. Kindī, 377.

^{page 216 note 2} See e.g. Kindī,417, 467.

^{page 216 note 3} al-Mālikī, 147 f.

^{page 216 note 4} See e.g. al-Mālikī, 159.

^{page 216 note 5} Kindī, 373.

^{page 216 note 6} See e.g. Kindī, 333, 339.

^{page 216 note 7} See e.g. Kindī, 382;Khushānī, 62.

^{page 217 note 1} Khushānī, 43 f.

^{page 217 note 2} Khushānī, 47 f. al-Mālikī, 108.

^{page 218 note 1} Khushānī, 53.

^{page 218 note 2} Ibn al-Hasan al-Nubāhī, Kitāb al-Marqaba al-'Ulyā (ed. Lévi-Provençal), 48 f.

^{page 218 note 3} al-Mālikī, 148; see also 149.

^{page 218 note 4} See e.g. Kindī, 427; al-Mālikī, 100.

^{page 218 note 5} See e.g. al-Mālikī, 101; Khushānī, 61.

^{page 218 note 6} Khushānī, 46.

^{page 218 note 7} al-Mālikī, 108.

^{page 219 note 1} al-Mālikī, 273 f.

^{page 219 note 2} Khushānī, 27.

^{page 219 note 3} al-Mālikī, 255. See also al-Mālikī, 256.

^{page 219 note 4} i.e. that his opinions should be blindly followed and applied by the qādī.

^{page 219 note 5} al-Mālikī, 114.

^{page 220 note 1} Ibn Fathūn, loc. cit.

^{page 220 note 2} Khushānī, 55.

^{page 220 note 3} Khushānī, 60.

^{page 220 note 4} al-Nubāhī, 51.

^{page 220 note 5} Khushānī, 7.

^{page 220 note 6} Khushānī, 13.

^{page 221 note 1} Kindī, 418.

^{page 221 note 2} al-Mālikī, 157.

^{page 221 note 3} Ibn Fathūn, loc.cit.

^{page 221 note 4} ‘Iyād, Madārik, Bāb shidda Mālik fi iqāma hudād Allāh.

^{page 221 note 5} Pt. I,Fī raf‘ al-qādi al-khasmain ilā al-fuqahā’ MS No.569–40 of the Qarawīyīn Library, Fez.

^{page 221 note 6} Khushānī, 59.

^{page 222 note 1} al-Mālikī, 144.

^{page 222 note 2} ‘Iyād, Madārik, Tabaqāt.

^{page 222 note 3} Khushānī, 63.

^{page 222 note 4} al-Istidhkār. MS (Fragment) No. 3712, of the Library of Ben Yūsuf, Marrakech.

^{page 222 note 5} J. Schacht, The origins of Muhammadan jurisprudence, 67; see also 313.

^{page 223 note 1} Kitāb al-Bayān wa'l Tahsil. MS No. M. 610 of the Library of Ben Yūsuf, Marrakech.

^{page 223 note 2} Ibn Fathūn, loc. cit.

^{page 223 note 3} Ibn Fathūn, loc. cit. See also Tyan, 159.

^{page 223 note 4} Tyan, 144.

^{page 223 note 5} al-Mālikī, 274.

^{page 224 note 1} al-Nubāhī, 73 f.

^{page 224 note 2} Ibn Fathūn, loc. cit.

^{page 224 note 3} Ibn Salamūn, Al-'Iqd al-Munazzam, Pt. II, Cairo, A.H. 1301, 192.

^{page 224 note 4} op cit, Bāb fī dhikr al-khitat …

^{page 224 note 5} Ibn Fathūn, op cit., Bāb fī dhikr al-khitat …

^{page 225 note 1} ‘ Iyād, Madārik, Bāb mā jā’ a fi wujūb al-rujū' ila ‘ amal ahl al-Madīna …

^{page 225 note 2} Schacht, Origins, 256.

^{page 225 note 3} Schacht, Origins, 62 ff.

^{page 225 note 4} The problem of ‘amal in Mālikī jurisprudence is a complex one, and reference is here made it to one 81aspect of it only.

^{page 226 note 1} Introduction to Riyād al-Nufūs, 13.

^{page 226 note 2} al-Mālikī, 256.

^{page 226 note 3} Amedroz, , JBAS, 1910, 2, 775, n. 4.Google Scholar

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