The Islamic School of Law: Evolution, Devolution, and Progress (Harvard Series in Islamic Law) (Hardback)
Short Description for The Islamic School of Law 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 [I] 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 devel...
Full description- Publisher: HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Published: 25 February 2006
- Format: Hardback 340 pages
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- Categories: Islamic Law | International Law
- ISBN 13: 9780674017849 ISBN 10: 0674017846
- Sales rank: 766,765
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Full description for The Islamic School of Law
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 [I] 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.
