The Logic of Law Making in Islam
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The Logic of Law Making in Islam

Women and Prayer in the Legal Tradition

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eBook - PDF

The Logic of Law Making in Islam

Women and Prayer in the Legal Tradition

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. The Logic of Law Making in Islam
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. Preface
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Key Technical Definitions
  10. 1 A General Model
  11. 2 Preliminaries
  12. 3 Women Praying with Men: Adjacency
  13. 4 Women Praying with Women
  14. 5 Women Praying with Men: Communal Prayers
  15. 6 The Historical Development of Ḥanafī Reasoning
  16. 7 From Laws to Values
  17. 8 The Logic of Law Making
  18. Appendix: The Authenticity of Early Ḥanafī Texts: Two Books of al-Shaybānī
  19. Bibliography
  20. Index
  21. Series