| Body of Text: The Emergence of the Sunnī Law of Ritual Purity Contributor(s): Katz, Marion Holmes (Author) |
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ISBN: 0791453820 ISBN-13: 9780791453827 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $33.20 Product Type: Paperback Published: July 2002 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Islam - Rituals & Practice - Religion | Islam - Sunni - History | Middle East - General |
| Dewey: 297.38 |
| LCCN: 20010498-3 |
| Series: Suny Medieval Middle East History |
| Physical Information: 0.61" H x 6.06" W x 9.02" (0.85 lbs) 283 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Islamic |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Ritual purity is one of the least understood aspects of Islamic law and practice, yet it enjoys a prominent place in traditional legal texts and permeates the daily life of ordinary believers. Body of Text examines the emergence and crystallization of the law of ritual purity, using early sources to reconstruct the formative debates among Muslim scholars. The lively interaction among legal theorizing, caliphal politics, and popular practice illustrates the formation of the law, because as scholars strove for synthesis, they advanced competing understandings of the underlying structure and meaning of ritual purity. Katz demonstrates that no single theory can adequately interpret the diversity of opinion within the tradition. |