Disagreements of the Jurists: A Manual of Islamic Legal Theory

Disagreements of the Jurists: A Manual of Islamic Legal Theory (Library of Arabic Literature, 53)

Al-Qadi al-NuÊ¿man was the chief legal theorist and ideologue of the North African Fatimid dynasty in the tenth century. This translation makes available in English for the first time his major work on Islamic legal theory, which presents a legal model in support of the Fatimidsâ€™ principle of legitimate rule over the Islamic community. Composed as part of a grand project to establish the theoretical bases of the official Fatimid legal school, Disagreements of the Jurists expounds a distinctly ShiÊ¿i system of hermeneutics, which refutes the methods of legal interpretation adopted by Sunni jurists.

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The work begins with a discussion of the historical causes of jurisprudential divergence in the first Islamic centuries, and goes on to address, point by point, the specific interpretive methods of Sunni legal theory, arguing that they are both illegitimate and ineffective. While its immediate mission is to pave the foundation of the legal IsmaÊ¿ili tradition, the text also preserves several Islamic legal theoretical works no longer extantâ€”including Ibn Dawudâ€™s manual, al-Wusul ila maÊ¿rifat al-usulâ€”and thus throws light on a critical stage in the historical development of Islamic legal theory (usul al-fiqh) that would otherwise be lost to history.Â Â
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Country	USA
Brand	NYU Press
Manufacturer	NYU Press
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	black & white illustrations
ReleaseDate	2015-01-19
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780814763759

Disagreements of the Jurists: A Manual of Islamic Legal Theory (Library of Arabic Literature, 53)

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