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Authority, continuity, and change in Islamic law /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Authority, continuity, and change in Islamic law // Wael B. Hallaq.
remainder title:	Authority, Continuity & Change in Islamic Law
Author:	Hallaq, Wael B.,
Description:	1 online resource (xiv, 269 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Islamic law - Interpretation and construction. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511495557
ISBN:	9780511495557 (ebook)

Authority, continuity, and change in Islamic law /
Hallaq, Wael B.,1955-

Authority, continuity, and change in Islamic law /Authority, Continuity & Change in Islamic LawWael B. Hallaq. - 1 online resource (xiv, 269 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Juristic typologies: a framework for enquiry -- Early ijtihād and the later construction of authority -- The rise and augmentation of school authority -- Taqlīd: authority, hermeneutics, and function -- Operative terminology and the dynamics of legal doctrine -- The jurisconsult, the author-jurist, and legal change -- Summary and conclusions.

Wael B. Hallaq is regarded as one of the leading scholars in the field of Islamic law. In a path-breaking new book, the author shows how authority guaranteed both continuity and change in Islamic law. While the role of the law schools in augmenting these processes was of the essence, the author demonstrates that it was the construction of the absolutist authority of the school founder, an image which he suggests was actually developed later in history, that maintained the foundations of school methodology and hermeneutics. The defence of that methodology gave rise to an infinite variety of individual legal opinions, ultimately accommodating changes in the law. Thus the author concludes that the mechanisms of change were embedded in the very structure of Islamic law, despite its essentially conservative nature. This book will be welcomed by specialists and scholars in Islamic law for its rigour and innovation.

ISBN: 9780511495557 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

591848
Islamic law
--Interpretation and construction.

LC Class. No.: KBP454 / .H35 2001

Dewey Class. No.: 340.5/9

Authority, continuity, and change in Islamic law /
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