Contingency in a Sacred Law - Legal and Ethical Norms in the Muslim Fiqh

A focus on the way in which Muslim scholars of the Hanafite school of Muslim law, from the 10th-12th centuries, adapted their legal norms to changing circumstances and distinguished between legal and ethical norms, religious and legal status, legal propositions and religious judgment. The introduction links this debate to the sociology of law and spells out the distinction between theology and law in Islam.

About the author

Baber Johansen, Ph.D. (1965) in Islamic Studies, Habilitation (1972), Berlin, is Directeur d'Etudes at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes et Sciences Sociales in Paris for 'Structures normatives et histoire en Islam'. He has published extensively on the history of Islamic Law including The Islamic Law on Land Tax and Rent (London, Croom Helm, 1988) and (together with D.J. Stewart and A. Singer) Law and Society in Islam (Princeton, Markus Wiener Publishers, 1996).

Product details

• Authors: Baber Johansen
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.12.1998
• EAN: 9789004106031
• ISBN: 978-90-04-10603-1
• No. of pages: 536
• Dimensions: 167 mm x 243 mm x 36 mm
• Weight: 1066 g
• Series: Studies in Islamic Law and Soc
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