Islamic History and Law: From the 4th to the 11th Century and Beyond

ISBN-13: 9781137580900 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 214 str.

Labeeb Ahmed Bsoul

Opis

This study gives priority to the jurists' intellectual operations throughout the Muslim world, covering the historical development of Islamic jurisprudence from the middle of 4th century. The book relies on Arabic primary sources to give an impartial presentation of the jurists and produce an accurate memory of the past using objective knowledge.

Recenzje

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This study on (The Jurists' Contribution to the Formation of Islamic Jurisprudence from the Prophetic Era to the Middle of the Fourth/Twelfth Century) presents and discusses a variety of Islamic themes and topics related to the evolution of Islamic jurisprudence. A detailed research on numerous legal schools and ideas is presented. The literature review is extensive; the methodology was painstakingly thorough and incorporated the use of a sufficient number of arguments, perspectives and legal debates.
The content of the work is original and carries within it substantial contributions. The quality of the research is rigorous in offering extensive evidences and arguments for each of its ideas and titles. It offers a genuine contribution to the field of history and Islamic law as well as its different evolving stages. The advantage of the work is that it sheds lights on the original building blocks of much of today's legal discourse. The research certainly progresses the current scholarship by systematically discussing each idea in detail as well as the stages of legal history while informing the reader of the historical rationales underlying much of the legal debates that drive Muslim societies today.
The author, a student of Professor Wael Hallaq at McGill University (Canada) was clearly influenced by the former's style of analysis, argumentation and writing. The author supports his discussion with references from primary Arabic sources that many today are reluctant to consult due to their time-consuming and even burdensome nature. The author took on the challenge of consulting and drawing on those early Islamic works, translating their contents into English and rendering them accessible to the reader. I am not aware of this work being an addition to any other series. This work remains original and innovative and should be made available and accessible to the reader.
Undoubtedly, the research appeal targets a large audience with its fusion of religion, history and law. It is of great interest and appeal to those interested to further explore the evolutionary history of Islamic law and legal culture as well as those interested in developing a general overview of the Islamic sources and the nature and processes involved with the formation of its legal doctrines. Understanding the complexities and dynamics of much of the legal contemporary debates in Muslim societies would be trying without delving into those building blocks of the law as exposed in this work.
Undoubtedly this work is an invaluable piece of research on the origins and development stages of Islamic law and Islamic doctrine overall. The authors ability to engage the author in a number of historical facts and perspectives that crystalize the formation of current codification of the Islamic law has also made this research highly intriguing. This is significant in view of the fact that all audiences, whether reading the book out of unspecialized interest or with a background in Islamic history and law, one would find the work quite rich with extensive information hardly found in many other contemporary works on Islamic law and legal doctrines in Islam. The breadth of the research wide-ranging and cover various regions and zone, and historical stations.
The contribution of the author is undeniably impressive. However, the author would have to take another round of review of the style and presentation. A major problem is the extensive use of Arabic terms which may cause comprehension difficulty to the English reader. The author' use of Arabic terms however, is understandable as he perhaps wanted to provide the Arabic sense in a work such as this.. This hurdle is comparably easy to overlook given the available English translation sources that would render the text smooth and enjoyable. An additional issue is the improper transliteration and misspelling of proper nouns, names of legal sources and terms in Arabic. Another round of professional language

Spis treści

Introduction: The Fourth Period: Application and the Era of the Mujtahids

1. The Period of Ta?b?q (application): The Era of Mujtahids of Legal Questions
2. Jurists Inclined to Taql?d (tradition) and the Closure of the Gate of Ijtih?d
3. The Codification (Tadw?n) Movement and the Period of Application (Ta?b?q)

Concluding Remarks

O autorze

Labeeb Ahmed Bsoul is Associate Professor at Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates. He received his PhD from McGill University, Canada, in Middle East and Islamic Studies. His areas of interest and expertise include modern and contemporary history of the Middle East, international relations, orientalism, and Middle East and Islamic studies. He has published numerous articles and is author of International Treaties (Mu'ahadat) in Islam.

Blurb

In Islamic History and Law, Labeeb Ahmed Bsoul undertakes an extensive examination of Islamic intellectual history, covering ages that witnessed different movements and doctrinal trends. While political and geographical factors certainly influenced the Islamic religious sciences, internal and intellectual factors exerted a much more substantial influence. This study gives priority to jurists' intellectual operations throughout the Muslim world, covering the historical development of Islamic jurisprudence from the middle of 4th century. Bsoul's examination of jurisprudential advances takes into account the shifting dominance of particular centers of legal scholarship in light of competing doctrines and their adherents. This work sheds light on jurists of North Africa and the Andalus, who are rarely mentioned in general modern works, and also aims to demonstrate Muslim women's important role in the history of jurisprudence, highlighting their participation in the Islamic sciences. Bsoul relies mainly on Arabic primary sources to give an impartial presentation of these jurists and produce an accurate memory of the past based on objective knowledge.