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Author Mallat, Chibli, author

Title The renewal of Islamic law : Muhammad Baqer as-Sadr, Najaf, and the Shi'i International / Chibli Mallat
Published Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1993

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 245 pages)
Series Cambridge Middle East library ; 29
Cambridge Middle East library ; 29.
Contents pt. 1. Islamic law and the constitution -- pt. 2. Islamic law, 'Islamic economics', and the interest-free bank
Summary This is the first comprehensive study of the life and works of Muhammad Baqer as-Sadr - an Iraqi scholar who made an important contribution to the renewal of Islamic law and politics in the contemporary Middle East. Executed in 1980 by the regime of Saddam Hussein, Sadr was the most articulate thinker as well as a major political actor in the revival of Shi'i learning, which placed Najaf in Southern Iraq at its centre
Dr Chibli Mallat examines in depth the intellectual development of Sadr and his companions, who included Ayatollah Ruhullah al-Khumaini. He assesses how Sadr reformed the system of religious education and developed innovative approaches to the key areas of study of law, economics and banking. The author convincingly demonstrates how Sadr's ideas and activities were influential in the rise of political Islam across the Middle East, particularly in countries with strong Shi'i constituencies such as Iran, Iraq and Lebanon, and played an important part in the Iranian revolution of 1979. Given the renewed interest in Islam as a religious, political and social phenomenon, this is a most timely book and will be widely read by students and specialists of law, economics and the politics of the Middle East as well as of the history of ideas
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject 880-01 Ṣadr, Muḥammad Bāqir
SUBJECT 880-01/(Q S⁺Đadr, Muh⁺Đammad Ba⁺ѕqir
Ṣadr, Muḥammad Bāqir fast
Ṣadr, Muḥammad Bāqir aṣ- 1935-1980 gnd
Ṣadr, Muḥammad Bāqir. nli
Saḍr, Muḥammad Bāqir, (1934-1980) ram
Sadr, Muhammad Bâqir as- ((19.-1980)) ram
Subject 880-02 Islamic law.
880-02/(Q Shi⁺ѕ⁽ah
Shīʿah.
Islamic law
Shīʻah
Islam
Recht
Reform
Islamitisch recht.
Sjiʻisme.
Grondwetten.
Islamitische economie.
Islamic law.
Shīʻah.
Banques -- Aspect religieux -- Islam.
Musulmans -- Éducation.
Islam et politique -- Moyen-Orient.
Économie politique -- Aspect religieux -- Islam.
Chiisme.
Droit islamique -- 20e siècle.
Iran
Moyen-Orient -- Histoire religieuse -- 20e siècle.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0521433193
9780521433198
9780511583889
0511583885
9780521531221
0521531225