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Zusatztext Reviews for The Mantle of the Prophet '[Mottahedeh] has drawn on a massive amount of learning! but he has got the scholarly apparatus out of the way and made his book accessible to a wide audience.' - New York Times Book Review 'A masterpiece [displaying] dazzling erudition.' - New York Review of Books Informationen zum Autor Roy Parviz Mottahedeh was the Gurney Professor of History, Emeritus, at Harvard University. He served as the Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard from 1987 to 1990 and as Director of the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program at Harvard from 2006 to 2011. His first book, Loyalty and Leadership in an Early Islamic Society , gained him a Guggenheim Fellowship, and he was among the first to receive a MacArthur Fellowship. His history of modern Iran, The Mantle of the Prophet , is an international bestseller which has been translated into numerous languages, and both this and his translation of Lessons in Islamic Jurisprudence by Muhammad Baqir As-Sadr are also available from Oneworld. Klappentext Used widely by Shi'ite seminaries, and valued by Sunni scholars for its intellectual rigor, Muhammad Baqir as-Sadr's Lessons is a key study of Islamic jurisprudence. It covers topics from the general characterization of jurisprudence to such specialized issues as the assessment of the verbal divine-law argument, study of procedural principles, and reflections on the resolution of conflicting arguments. Throughout the work the reader is introduced to the active engagement with philosophy and reason which characterizes Shi'I thinking on legal matters. The new translation by Roy Mottahedeh from the original Arabic employs a carefully designed and appropriate English terminology, and features a significant amount of supporting material including a glossary of legal and theological concepts , and a ful; index of Arabic terms. With an introduction that skilfully traces the development of Islamic jurisprudence to provides an essential context for the following study, this volume will prove a useful and stimulating resource for theologians, historians, and scholars of Islamic Studies. Zusammenfassung The first English translation of one of the most famous texts by the influential and charasmatic Islamic activist, as-Sadr, who was executed by Saddam Husein in Iraq in 1980. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Characterization of jurisprudence: a preliminary word; characterization of jurisprudence; the subject matter of jurisprudence; the discipline of jurisprudence is the logic of legal understanding; the importance of the discipline of jurisprudence in the practice of derivation; jurisprudence is to legal understanding as theory is to application; the interaction between legal-understanding thought and jurisprudential thought; the permissibility of the process of deriving divine-legal rulings. 2 Substantiating arguments: the divine-law ruling and its subdivision; the division of rulings into injunctive and declaratory; categories of the injunctive ruling; areas of discussion in the discipline of jurisprudence; the divine-law argument. 3 Procedural principles: the fundamental procedural principle; the secondary procedural principle; the principle of the inculpatoriness of non-specific knowledge; the presumption of continuity. 4 The conflict of arguments: conflict between substantiating arguments; conflict between (procedural) principles; conflict between the two types of argument....
