Anthropology of Islamic Law - Education, Ethics, and Legal Interpretation At Egypt''s Al-Azhar

The Anthropology of Islamic Law shows how hermeneutic theory and practice theory can be brought together to analyze cultural, legal, and religious traditions. These ideas are developed through an analysis of the Islamic legal tradition, which examines both Islamic legal doctrine and religious education.

List of contents

• Introduction


• Section I: Theory, Ethnography, History


• Chapter 1: Hermeneutic Theory and Practice Theory in the Study of Cultural, Legal, and Religious Traditions


• Chapter 2: Higher Religious Learning in Modern Egypt


• Section II: Traditional Islamic Learning and Legal Doctrine


• Chapter 3: Sharia, Sunna, and Ethics


• Chapter 4: Acquiring Knowledge through Companionship (Suhba)


• Chapter 5: The Sanad


• Chapter 6: Taking From the Mouths of Shaykhs (Mushafaha)


• Section III: A New Perspective on Islamic Legal Doctrine


• Chapter 7: The Structure of Islamic Legal Thought


• Section IV: Modern Reform


• Chapter 8: Reorganizing Time and Space


• Chapter 9: Transforming the Act of Reading


• Chapter 10: Salafism and Wasatism


• Conclusion


• Bibliography

About the author

Aria Nakissa is Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies and Anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis.

Summary

The Anthropology of Islamic Law shows how hermeneutic theory and practice theory can be brought together to analyze cultural, legal, and religious traditions. These ideas are developed through an analysis of the Islamic legal tradition, which examines both Islamic legal doctrine and religious education.

Additional text

Drawing deeply on both ethnographic and textual evidence, Nakissa bridges a deep methodological divide in Islamic studies. This lucidly written and persuasively argued study will engage readers across multiple disciplines.

Product details

• Authors: Aria Nakissa, Aria (Assistant Professor of Islamic Stud Nakissa, Aria (Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies and Anthropology Nakissa
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2019
• EAN: 9780190932886
• ISBN: 978-0-19-093288-6
• No. of pages: 328
• Series: Oxford Islamic Legal Studies; Oxford Islamic Legal Studies
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Miscellaneous; PHILOSOPHY / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Islamic Studies, Islamic Law, Systems of law: Islamic law, Law & society, LAW / Islamic, Law and society, sociology of law, Islamic & Arabic philosophy, Islamic and Arab philosophy, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law