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Authority, continuity, and change in Islamic law / Wael B. Hallaq.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 269 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0511017804
  • 9780511017803
  • 0521803314
  • 9780521803311
  • 0511173954
  • 9780511173950
  • 9780511495557
  • 0511495552
  • 9780511047961
  • 0511047967
  • 0511153295
  • 9780511153297
  • 9786610433254
  • 6610433259
  • 1107123267
  • 9781107123267
  • 1280433256
  • 9781280433252
  • 0511327854
  • 9780511327858
  • 0521023939
  • 9780521023931
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Authority, continuity, and change in Islamic law.DDC classification:
  • 340.5/9 21
LOC classification:
  • BP163 .H35 2001eb
Other classification:
  • 86.14
  • EH 5381
  • PU 9300
  • PW 9400
  • KD600
  • cci1icc
Online resources:
Contents:
Juristic typologies: a framework for enquiry -- Early ijtihād and the later construction of authority -- The rise and augmentation of school authority -- Taqlīd: authority, hermeneutics, and function -- Operative terminology and the dynamics of legal doctrine -- The jurisconsult, the author-jurist, and legal change -- Summary and conclusions.
Summary: In his latest book, Wael Hallaq examines the relationship between authority, continuity and change in Islamic law and concludes that the mechanisms of change are embedded in its very structure despite its inherent conservatism. Scholars will welcome the intellectual rigor and innovation of this pathbreaking analysis.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-260) and index.

Juristic typologies: a framework for enquiry -- Early ijtihād and the later construction of authority -- The rise and augmentation of school authority -- Taqlīd: authority, hermeneutics, and function -- Operative terminology and the dynamics of legal doctrine -- The jurisconsult, the author-jurist, and legal change -- Summary and conclusions.

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In his latest book, Wael Hallaq examines the relationship between authority, continuity and change in Islamic law and concludes that the mechanisms of change are embedded in its very structure despite its inherent conservatism. Scholars will welcome the intellectual rigor and innovation of this pathbreaking analysis.

English.

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