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Provides a close analysis of theʿAqila, a group collectively liable for blood money payments, in Islamic law and history.
List of contents
Part I. The Contribution of Islamic Values: 1. The modern perspective and the Islamic perspective, and their application to the law of homicide; 2. Major modifications of the Islamic law of homicide; 3. The '¿qila's liability for homicide restricted, and justified; Part II. The Contribution of the State Administration: 4. The D¿w¿n innovation in Umayyad practice; 5. From Umayyad practice to ¿anaf¿ law; 6. The D¿w¿n innovation in ¿anaf¿ law; Part III. The Contribution of the Persians: 7. The Eastern Iranian ¿anaf¿ views on the '¿qila: a presentation; 8. The Eastern Iranian ¿anaf¿ views: the general context; 9. The Eastern Iranian ¿anaf¿ views on the '¿qila: an examination; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
About the author
Nurit Tsafrir is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Middle Eastern and African History at Tel-Aviv University. She was previously a member of the Israel Institution for Advanced Studies in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton University, New Jersey. A specialist in medieval Islam focusing on the Hanafi school of law, she is the author of The History of an Islamic School of Law: The Early Spread of Hanafism (2004).
Summary
Offering the first close analysis of the ?Aqila, a group jointly liable for blood money payments on behalf of its members, this study traces the transformation of this important institution from pre-Islamic custom to the Shari?a, and follows its further re-shaping through the modern period, in relation to Islamic religion, state, and society.
