| Early Islamic Legal Theory: The Risāla of Muḥammad Ibn Idrīs Al-Shāfiʾī Contributor(s): Lowry, Joseph (Author) |
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ISBN: 9004163603 ISBN-13: 9789004163607 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $211.85 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2007 Annotation: This book offers a comprehensive reinterpretation of Sh?fi 's "Ris?la" and shows how Sh?fi sought to formulate an all-embracing hermeneutic that portrays the law as a tightly interlocking structure organized around defined interactions of the Qur n and the Sunna. |
| Additional Information |
| Dewey: 340.59 |
| Series: Studies in Islamic Law and Society |
| Physical Information: 1.16" H x 6.57" W x 9.58" (1.95 lbs) 443 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Islamic |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Risāla of al-Shāfiʿī (d. 204/820), the earliest preserved work of Islamic legal theory, has been understood in previous scholarship as either the elaboration of a hierarchy of sources of law (Qurʾān, Sunna, consensus, and analogical reasoning) or an extended defense of the Sunna. Through a careful rereading of this celebrated text, this book offers a comprehensive reinterpretation of the Risāla, in which Shāfiʿī formulated an all-encompassing hermeneutic that portrays the law as a tightly interlocking structure organized around defined interactions of the Qurʾān and the Sunna. Topics covered include Shāfiʿī's creative account of the law's architectonics, hermeneutical techniques, legal epistemology, relationship to kalām, and the role of consensus (ijmāʿ). |