Shi?ite Legal Theory - Sources and Commentaries

Informationen zum Autor Kumail Rajani is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter. He is the editor of The Sound Traditions: Studies in Ismaili Texts and Thought (Brill, 2021) and co-editor of Shi?i Legal Theory: Texts and Commentaries (forthcoming, 2022). He has published an article, 'Between Qum and Qayrawan: Unearthing early Shii ?adith sources', in the Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies (2021). Robert Gleave is Professor of Arabic Studies at the University of Exeter. His most recent book is Violence in Islamic Thought from European Imperialism to the Post-Colonial Era (EUP, 2021), co-authored with Mustafa Baig. Klappentext Contains editions and commentaries of hitherto un-edited manuscripts from the various strands of the Shi?ite tradition of Islamic thought (Zaydi, Isma?ili and Twelver). A careful side-by-side reading of these texts and commentaries helps identify themes peculiar to the Shi?ite "family" of legal theories. Zusammenfassung Contains editions and commentaries of hitherto un-edited manuscripts from the various strands of the Shi?ite tradition of Islamic thought (Zaydi, Isma?ili and Twelver). A careful side-by-side reading of these texts and commentaries helps identify themes peculiar to the Shi?ite "family" of legal theories.

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• Authors: Robert Gleave, Kumail Rajani, Kumail (Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Is Rajani, Kumail Gleave Rajani
• Assisted by: Robert Gleave (Editor), Kumail Rajani (Editor)
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.03.2023
• EAN: 9781399520256
• ISBN: 978-1-399-52025-6
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: Gibb Memorial Trust
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries