Logic of Law Making in Islam - Women and Prayer in the Legal Tradition

Informationen zum Autor Behnam Sadeghi has been an Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Stanford University since 2006. His research spans Islamic thought and law in the early and post-formative periods. In addition, he has made groundbreaking contributions to the history of the Qur'an and the ?adith literature in a series of published essays. Klappentext This pioneering study examines the process of reasoning in Islamic law. Some of the key questions addressed here include whether sacred law operates differently from secular law, why laws change or stay the same and how different cultural and historical settings impact the development of legal rulings. In order to explore these questions, the author examines the decisions of thirty jurists from the largest legal tradition in Islam: the Hanafi school of law. He traces their rulings on the question of women and communal prayer across a very broad period of time - from the eighth to the eighteenth century - to demonstrate how jurists interpreted the law and reconciled their decisions with the scripture and the sayings of the Prophet. The result is a fascinating overview of how Islamic law has evolved and the thinking behind individual rulings. Zusammenfassung This pioneering study examines the process of reasoning in Islamic law. By analysing rulings from the Hanafi school! the author questions whether sacred law operated differently from secular law! why laws changed and how different cultural and historical settings impacted on the development of legal rulings. The result is a fascinating overview of the evolution of Islamic law. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. A general model; 2. Preliminaries; 3. Women praying with men: adjacency; 4. Women praying with women; 5. Women praying with men: communal prayers; 6. The historical development of Hanafi reasoning; 7. From laws and values; 8. The logic of law making.

Product details

• Authors: Behnam Sadeghi, Behnam (Stanford University Sadeghi, Sadeghi Behnam
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.02.2013
• EAN: 9781107009097
• ISBN: 978-1-107-00909-7
• No. of pages: 242
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Islamic C; Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Islam, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, RELIGION / Islam / General, RELIGION / Islam / Rituals & Practice, RELIGION / Sexuality & Gender Studies, Islamic Law, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Worship, rites, ceremonies and rituals, Islamic worship, rites & ceremonies, Systems of law: Islamic law, LAW / Islamic