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.

Product details

• Authors: Mahmood Kooria
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.07.2024
• EAN: 9781009107679
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0910767-9
• No. of pages: 466
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Islam, European History, HISTORY / Middle East / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, RELIGION / Islam / General, Middle Eastern history