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The Islamic Origins of Modernity
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Monica M. Ringer
Published: 15 September 2020
... Égalité Fraternité politics religion women idolatry jahiliyya time Koselleck Reinhardt Backwardness Modernity Progress Religion Islam Golden Age Origins Islamic law Think of the child as European knowledge whose father is Greek knowledge, and whose Arab mother contributed also...
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Introduction
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Birol Baskan
Published: 31 August 2021
... Wahhabi or Wahhabism Islamisation Al An‘am Hobbes Thomas Qur’an Shariah or Islamic Law Hadith or Prophetic Traditions Shia Shiism modern state building in the Gulf Al Bassam Abdullah Abd al Rahman or Ulama Najd Al Rumi Adnan Salim Albayrak Sadık United Nations Educational Scientific...
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Islamic Finance in Theory and Practice
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Ibrahim Warde
Published: 15 February 2000
...This chapter provides background information on Islamic finance, beginning by defining Islamic finance whose operations and objectives are consistent with the Islamic law or the Shariah. It also discusses the different factors that set Islamic banking apart from conventional banking...
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Published: 01 September 2020
... authority female companions of the Imams women in religious seminaries women scholars of Islam women scholars of Islamic law Recent decades have witnessed an explosion of scholarly output focusing on women in Islamic societies. A salient milestone in this development is represented by the publication...
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Published: 01 September 2020
... women scholars of Islam women scholars of Islamic law Women are rarely associated with religious authority. As far as the Abrahamic religions are concerned, although women are known to have exercised religious authority at various points in the histories of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, ruling...
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Published: 01 September 2020
... Islamic law (fiqh) Shari’a Public sphere Private sphere Enjoining the proper and forbidding the improper (al-amr bi al-ma‘ruf wa al-nahy ‘an al-munkar) Office of accountability (hisbah) Islamic state/theocracy 1 This chapter is my presentation “Daramadi bar bahth-e Omumi wa Khosusi dar ...
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Ibn al-Mubārak, Traditionist
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Christopher Melchert
Published: 01 October 2020
... Taymī Suyūṭī al Ibn Ṣāʿid Ayyūb al Sakhtiyānī Ibn ʿAwn ʿAbd Allāh Abū al Dardāʾ Abū Dharr Salmān Wakīʿ ibn al Jarrāḥ Yūsuf ibn Asbāṭ Asmarī Saʿīd ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allāh Āl Nāshiʿ al hadith Islamic law Ibn al-Mubārak Ibn al‑Mubārak (d. 181/797) is most famous for two collections of hadith...
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Published: 01 October 2020
...) hadith traditionists Islamic law isnād criticism matn criticism Shāfiʿi school Ḥanbali school Ḥanafi school Māliki school Western scholarship on the methods developed by Muslim critics for evaluating the authenticity of hadith reports have focused predominantly on isnād ...
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The Reception and Representation of Western Hadith Studies in Turkish Academe
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Fatma Kızıl
Published: 01 October 2020
... to come up with an alternative basis for Islamic law such as their criticisms seem to imply. hadith Turkey Abū Rayyah Maḥmūd Aḥmad Amīn Ahmed Naim Babanzade Caetani Leone Cevdet Abdullah Dozy Reinhart Hakkı İzmirli İsmail Turkish Traditionalists Traditionalism Ugan Zakir Kadiri Abū Hurayrah...
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Islamic Law and Empire in Ottoman Cairo
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James E. Baldwin
Published online: 21 September 2017
Published in print: 01 January 2017
...A study of Islamic law and political power in the Ottoman Empire’s richest provincial city What did Islamic law mean in the early modern period, a world of great Muslim empires? Often portrayed as the quintessential jurists’ law, to a large extent it was developed by scholars outside the purview...
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Tianfang Sanzijing: Exchanges and Changes in China’s Reception of Islamic Law
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Roberta Tontini
Published: 01 July 2016
... Islamic law with the legal culture of the Qing, Liu’s concise primer on the main tenets of Islam spoke to a broader audience than its textual antecedent. This chapter argues that the Muslim Sanzijing set the ground for an independent development of Islamic law in the Chinese context, one...
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Contemporary Ijtihad: Limits and Controversies
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L. Ali Khan and Hisham M. Ramadan
Published online: 22 March 2012
Published in print: 30 April 2011
...The resurgence of Islam, geopolitical crises involving Muslim nations, violence associated with Islam and the immigration of millions of Muslims to Western countries have generated a strong interest in understanding Islamic law. The challenges of these new realities have impressed upon Muslims...
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Indignation About the Proposal to Include Shariah Law in Britain
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Nahid Afrose Kabir
Published: 26 October 2010
...The Islamic law or shariah is interpreted according to four schools of law, but the basic elements are the same throughout the Islamic world, particularly the practice of religious rites. Over the ages, the ethical norms related to shariah have been the injunctions...
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Published: 01 September 2020
... d 874 Zaynab bt ‘Ali Prophet Muhammad ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib Islamic religious authority female companions of the Imams women in religious seminaries women scholars of Islam women scholars of Islamic law The ultimate authority in Shi‘i Islam rests with the Imams. Much has been written about what...
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Published: 01 September 2020
... at these institutions, each with distinct goals in terms of thematic focus, societal function, and politics. The top level of education offered at these seminaries involves advanced training in Islamic law, paralleling the studies undertaken by male students who intend to become mujtahids, or fully qualified jurists...
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Published: 01 September 2020
... Jafar b Muhammad b Masrour al Majlisi Muhammad al Najashi al Sadiq Imam Ja‘far b Muhammad haqq right huquq rights adultery shari‘a rulers Treatise on Rights (Resalat al-Huquq) Imam Sajad Shite Imams Human rights Terminologies of right Philosophy of law Political philosophy Islamic law...
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Published: 01 January 2016
... the values of Islamic law such as justice and equality whereas other Muslims emphasised the ritual aspects of Islamic law. The Indonesians became critical of the Dutch regulations that they saw discriminatory but left other regulations that ensured religious freedom. The Malays did not reject the British...
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Introduction
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Khan L. Ali and M. Ramadan Hisham
Published: 30 April 2011
...This book examines the jurodynamics of Islamic law in evolutionary spatiotemporal contexts. Written from the internal viewpoint of Muslims, it discusses the resurgence that Islamic law is experiencing in Muslim communities across the world. This internal viewpoint takes for granted the core Islamic...
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Classical Era of Ijtihad, 632–875
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Khan L. Ali and M. Ramadan Hisham
Published: 30 April 2011
...This chapter discusses the classical era of ijtihad (632–875), a period marked by impressive jurisprudential research and creativity. This classical period emphasises the inherently dynamic and diverse nature of the Islamic law, and also demonstrates that God's law animates...
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Islamic Positive Law
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Khan L. Ali and M. Ramadan Hisham
Published: 30 April 2011
...This chapter discusses Islamic positive law, which, together with the Basic Code, forms the Islamic law. Islamic law is a broader term that includes both divine texts and positive law. The Basic Code meanwhile is the divine part of the Islamic law. It is not, however, a positive law. The divine...