Islamic Law in Circulation - Shafi''i Texts Across the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean

An exploration of the spread and survival of Islamic legal ideas and commentaries in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean regions in the second millennium CE.

List of contents

Introduction; Part I: 1. Circulation networks; 2. Circulatory texts; 3. Architecture of encounters; Part II: 4. The code; 5. The commentary; 6. The autocommentary; 7. The supercommentary; 8. The translations; Conclusion.

About the author

Mahmood Kooria is a researcher at Leiden University (the Netherlands) and a visiting faculty of history at Ashoka University (India). Previously he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Dutch Institute in Morocco (NIMAR), Rabat; the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) and the African Studies Centre (ASC), Leiden.

Summary

Looking at the spread and survival of Islamic legal ideas in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean littorals in the second millennium CE, this book focuses on the Shafi?i school of Islamic law to explore the nuances of juridical exchanges across several centuries and vast regions.

Product details

• Authors: Mahmood Kooria, Mahmood (Universiteit Leiden) Kooria
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2022
• EAN: 9781009098038
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0909803-8
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Islam, European History, HISTORY / Middle East / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, RELIGION / Islam / General, Middle Eastern history