Rebellion And Violence In Islamic Law

Informationen zum Autor Khaled Abou El Fadl is an Acting Professor at the University of California Los Angeles law school. His publications include The Search for Authority in Modern Islam (forthcoming). Klappentext The first systematic treatment of political resistance and rebellion in Islamic law. Zusammenfassung The book represents the first systematic examination of the idea and treatment of political resistance and rebellion in Islamic law. It examines how pre-modern Muslim jurists restructured competing doctrinal sources to construct a highly technical discourse on rebellion which has come to influence contemporary practice. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface and acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Modern scholarship and reorienting the approach to rebellion; 2. The doctrinal foundations of the laws of rebellion; 3. The historical context and the creative response; 4. The rise of the juristic discourse on rebellion: fragmentation; 5. The spread of the Islamic law of rebellion from the fourth/tenth to the fifth/eleventh centuries; 6. Rebellion, insurgency and brigandage: the developed positions and the emergence of trends; 7. The developed non-Sunni positions; 8. Negotiating rebellion in Islamic law; Works cited; Indexes.

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• Authors: Khaled Abou El Fadl, K El Fadl, Khaled Abou El Fadl, Khaled A. El- Fadl, El Fadl Khaled Abou
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.11.2001
• EAN: 9780521793117
• ISBN: 978-0-521-79311-7
• Dimensions: 158 mm x 235 mm x 30 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law