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Title: Disagreements of the Jurists
Condition: New
Subtitle: A Manual of Islamic Legal Theory
Author: al-Qāḍī al-Nuʿmān
Translator: Devin Stewart
Contributor: Devin Stewart (Translated by), John J. Coughlin (Foreword by), John Sexton (Foreword by), Devin Stewart (Edited by)
Format: Hardback
ISBN-10: 0814763758
EAN: 9780814763759
ISBN: 9780814763759
Publisher: New York University Press
Genre: Law & Politics
Release Date: 19/01/2015
Description:

A masterful overview of Islamic law and its diversity
Al-Qadi al-Nu'man was the chief legal theorist and ideologue of the North African Fatimid dynasty in the tenth century. This translation makes available for the first time in English his major work on Islamic legal theory (usul al-fiqh), which presents a legal model in support of the Fatimid claim to legitimate rule.
Composed as part of a grand project to establish the theoretical bases of the official Fatimid legal school, Disagreements of the Jurists expounds a distinctly Shi'i system of hermeneutics. The work begins with a discussion of the historical causes of jurisprudential divergence in the first Islamic centuries and goes on to engage, point by point, with the specific interpretive methods of Sunni legal theory. The text thus preserves important passages from several Islamic legal theoretical works no longer extant, and in the process throws light on a critical stage in the development of Islamic legal theory that would otherwise be lost to history.
An English-only edition.

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