| Authority, Conflict, and the Transmission of Diversity in Medieval Islamic Law Contributor(s): Jaques, Kevin (Author) |
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ISBN: 9004147454 ISBN-13: 9789004147454 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $182.40 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2006 Annotation: This publication examines how a medieval Syrian Sh?fi'? jurist, Ibn Q??? Shuhbah (d. 851/1448), depicted the formation, decline, and the sources for the revival of Islamic law based on his ?abaq?t al-fuqah? al-sh?fi'?yah (The Generations of the Sh?fi'? Jurists). |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Law |
| Dewey: 340 |
| LCCN: 2005057249 |
| Series: Studies in Islamic Law and Society |
| Physical Information: 1.01" H x 6.51" W x 9.49" (1.59 lbs) 320 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Islamic |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book looks at Ṭabaqāt al-fuqahāʾ al-shāfiʿīyah by Ibn Qāḍī Shuhbah (d. 851/1448) and how its author attempted to portray the development of the Shāfiʿī school of law up to his own times. The volume examines the impact of crises on the formation of the ṭabaqāt genre. It demonstrates how ṭabaqāt, dedicated to explicating religious authority, were used by authors to sort-out challenges to intellectual orthodoxies. It also examines in detail the Ṭabaqāt directly, demonstrating Ibn Qāḍī Shuhbah's depiction of the development of Shāfiʿī law, the formation of intellectual sub-schools within the madhhab, the causes of legal decline, and curatives for the decline that are to be found in the great Shāfiʿī Ikhtilāf (divergent opinion) texts: the ʿAzīz sharḥ al-wajīz by al-Rāfiʿī and the Rawḍāt al-ṭālibīn by al-Nawawī. |