Second Formation of Islamic Law - The Hanafi School in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire

Informationen zum Autor Guy Burak is the Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Librarian at New York University's Bobst Library. Previously, Burak was a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, and in the Islamic Legal Studies Program at Harvard Law School. His articles have appeared in the International Journal of Middle East Studies, Comparative Studies in Society and History, the Mediterranean Historical Review, and the Journal of Islamic Studies. Klappentext The Second Formation of Islamic Law offers a new periodization of Islamic legal history in the eastern Islamic lands. Zusammenfassung The Second Formation of Islamic Law is the first book to deal with the rise of an official school of law in the Ottoman Empire and argues that some of the supposedly nineteenth-century developments! such as the codification of Islamic law! are rooted in much earlier centuries. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Muft¿s; 2. Genealogies and boundaries I: situating the imperial learned hierarchy within the H¿anaf¿ jurisprudential tradition; 3. Genealogies and boundaries II: two responses from the Arab provinces of the empire; 4. Books of high repute; 5. Intra-madhhab plurality and the empire's legal landscape; Conclusion: the second formation of Islamic law.

Product details

• Authors: Guy Burak, Guy (New York University) Burak
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2017
• EAN: 9781107462076
• ISBN: 978-1-107-46207-6
• No. of pages: 292
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization; Cambridge Studies in Islamic C; Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries