The Epistle on Legal Theory /

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"The Epistle on Legal Theory is the oldest surviving Arabic work on Islamic legal theory and the foundational document of Islamic jurisprudence. Its author, Muḥammad ibn Idrīs al-Shāfiʻī (d.204 H/820 AD), was the eponym of the Shāfiʻī school of legal thought, one of the four rites in Sunn...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Shāfiʻī, Muḥammad ibn Idrīs, 767 or 768-820
Otros Autores: Lowry, Joseph E. (Joseph Edmund) (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Arabic
Publicado: New York : New York University, 2013.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Shafiites > Early works to 1800.
Islamic law > Interpretation and construction > Early works to 1800.
Schafiiten
Recht
Islam
Shafiites.
Islamic law > Interpretation and construction.
Chāfiʻites > Ouvrages avant 1800.
Droit islamique > Interpretation > Ouvrages avant 1800.
Early works.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"The Epistle on Legal Theory is the oldest surviving Arabic work on Islamic legal theory and the foundational document of Islamic jurisprudence. Its author, Muḥammad ibn Idrīs al-Shāfiʻī (d.204 H/820 AD), was the eponym of the Shāfiʻī school of legal thought, one of the four rites in Sunni Islam. This fascinating work offers the first systematic treatment in Arabic of key issues in Islamic legal thought. These include a survey of the importance of Arabic as the language of revelation, principles of textual interpretation to be applied to the Qurʼan and prophetic Traditions, techniques for harmonizing apparently contradictory precedents, legal epistemology, rules of inference, and discussions of when legal interpretation is required. The author illustrates his theoretical claims with numerous examples drawn from nearly all areas of Islamic law, including ritual law, commercial law, tort law, and criminal law. The text thus provides an important window into both Islamic law and legal thought in particular and early Islamic intellectual history in general. The Arabic text has been established on the basis of the two most important critical editions and includes variants in the notes, while the English text is a new translation by a leading scholar of al-Shāfiʻī and his thought"--Jacket.
Notas:Text in Arabic and English in opposite pages.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (544 pages).
ISBN:9780814729311

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