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  Title

  The logic of law-making in Islam : women and prayer in the legal tradition

  Author

  Sadeghi, Behnam, 1969-  

  Publisher:

  Cambridge University Press,

  Pub date:

  2013.

  Pages:

  xxi, 215 pages :

  ISBN:

  9781107009097

  1 copy available in Second Floor.
  1 copy total in all locations.

  • 9781107009097
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    KBP 144 .S227 2013	1	Book	Second Floor

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  The logic of law-making in Islam : women and prayer in the legal tradition
  Sadeghi, Behnam, 1969-
  
  
  

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  Personal Author:

  Sadeghi, Behnam, 1969-

  Title:

  The logic of law-making in Islam : women and prayer in the legal tradition / Behnam Sadeghi.

  Physical description:

  xxi, 215 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

  Series Statement:

  (Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization)

  Contents Note:

  Machine generated contents note: 1. A general model; 2. Preliminaries; 3. Women praying with men: adjacency; 4. Women praying with women; 5. Women praying with men: communal prayers; 6. The historical development of Hanafi reasoning; 7. From laws and values; 8. The logic of law making.

  Summary:

  "This pioneering study examines the process of reasoning in Islamic law. Some of the key questions addressed here include whether sacred law operates differently from secular law, why laws change or stay the same and how different cultural and historical settings impact the development of legal rulings. In order to explore these questions, the author examines the decisions of thirty jurists from the largest legal tradition in Islam: the Hanafi school of law. He traces their rulings on the question of women and communal prayer across a very broad period of time - from the eighth to the eighteenth century - to demonstrate how jurists interpreted the law and reconciled their decisions with the scripture and the sayings of the Prophet. The result is a fascinating overview of how Islamic law has evolved and the thinking behind individual rulings"-- Provided by publisher.

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  Subject term:

  Islamic law--Methodology.

  Subject term:

  Islamic law--Philosophy.

  Subject term:

  Islamic law--Interpretation and construction.

  Subject term:

  HISTORY / Middle East / General