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Author Lowry, Joseph E. (Joseph Edmund)

Title Early Islamic legal theory : the Risāla of Muḥammad ibn Idrīs al-Shāfiʻī / by Joseph E. Lowry
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 443 pages)
Series Studies in Islamic law and society, 1384-1130 ; volume 30
Studies in Islamic law and society ; v. 30.
Contents Shāfiʻī's concept of the Bayān -- Hermeneutical techniques -- Prophetic sunna and hadith in the Risāla -- The Qurān in Shāfiʻī's Risāla -- Shāfiʻī's epistemology -- Internal evidence for the Risāla's polemical context -- Ijmā in the Risāla -- The Risāla and its relationship to mature Uml al-Fiqh
Summary The Risala of al-Shafii (d 204/820), the earliest preserved work of Islamic legal theory, has been understood in previous scholarship as the elaboration of a hierarchy of sources of law (Quran, Sunna, consensus, and analogical reasoning)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-399) and indexes
Notes English
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Subject Shāfiʻī, Muḥammad ibn Idrīs, 767 or 768-820. Risālah fī uṣūl al-fiqh.
SUBJECT Šāfiʿī, Muḥammad Ibn-Idrīs aš- 767-820 gnd
Šāfiʻī, Abū-ʻAbdallāh Muḥammad Ibn-Idrīs aš. swd
Aš. swd
Risālah fī uṣūl al-fiqh (Shāfiʻī, Muḥammad ibn Idrīs) fast
Subject Islamic law -- Interpretation and construction -- Early works to 1800
Shafiites -- Early works to 1800
RELIGION -- Islam -- Law.
Islamic law -- Interpretation and construction
Shafiites
Islam
Recht
Schafiiten
Islamitisch recht.
Islamisk rätt -- verk före 1800.
Shafiiter.
Genre/Form Early works
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2007047588
ISBN 9789047423898
9047423895
1281939854
9781281939852
9786611939854
6611939857