By Peri Bearman, Rudolph Peters, Frank E. Vogel

Description

The Islamic school of law, or madhhab, is a concept on which a substantial amount has been written but of which there is still little understanding, and even less consensus. This collection of selected papers from the III International Conference on Islamic Legal Studies, held in May 2000 at the Harvard Law School, offers building blocks toward the entire edifice of understanding the complex development of the madhhab, a development that even in the contemporary dissolution of madhhab lines and grouping continues to fascinate. As scholars look to the construction of a new Islamic legal history, these essays inform on the background to madhhab formation, on inter-madhhab polemics and the drive toward legal authority, on madhhab perpetuation and anti-madhhab tendencies, on the constitutional role of the madhhab, on the madhhab\\\'s legislative and adjudicative mechanisms, and on the significance of the madhhab in comparative terms. This volume is of value to anyone interested in the nature of Islamic law.

Contents

Preface

1. Bernard Weiss, The Madhhab in Islamic Legal Theory

2. Steven C. Judd, Al-Awza\\\'i and Sufyan al-Thawri: The Umayyad Madhhab?

3. Eyyup Said Kaya, Continuity and Change in Islamic Law: The Concept of Madhhab and the Dimensions of Legal Disagreement in Hanafi Scholarship of the Tenth Century

4. Alfonso Carmona, The Introduction of Malik\\\'s Teachings in al-Andalus

5. Maribel Fierro, Proto-Malikis, Malikis, and Reformed Malikis in al-Andalus

6. Daphna Ephrat, Madhhab and Madrasa in Eleventh-Century Baghdad

7. Daniella Talmon-Heller, Fidelity, Cohesion, and Conformity within Madhhabs in Zangid and Ayyubid Syria

8. Camilla Adang, The Beginnings of the Zahiri Madhhab in al-Andalus

9. Robert Gleave, Intra-Madhhab Ikhtilaf and the Late Classical Imami Shiite Conception of the Madhhab

10. Rudolph Peters, What Does It Mean to Be an Official Madhhab? Hanafism and the Ottoman Empire

11. Brinkley Messick, Madhhabs and Modernities

12. Mark E. Cammack, Islam and Nationalism in Indonesia: Forging an Indonesian Madhhab

13. Ihsan Yilmaz, Inter-Madhhab Surfing, Neo-Ijtihad, and Faith-Based Movement Leaders

Endnotes

Contributors

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

Published Year: 2006 Format: Hard Back ISBN: 978-0-674-01784-9 Publisher: Harvard University Press No of Pages: 320 Our Price: £ 25.95 Reviews: 0 reivew(s).

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