The Second Formation of Islamic Law

The Hanafi School in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire

Guy Burak

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN: 9781107090279
• eBook ISBN: 9781316191934
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Middle Eastern History
• Index: History

The Second Formation of Islamic Law is the first book to deal with the rise of an official school of law in the post-Mongol period. The author explores how the Ottoman dynasty shaped the structure and doctrine of a particular branch within the Hanafi school of law. In addition, the book examines the opposition of various jurists, mostly from the empire's Arab provinces, to this development. By looking at the emergence of the concept of an official school of law, the book seeks to call into question the grand narratives of Islamic legal history that tend to see the nineteenth century as the major rupture. Instead, an argument is formed that some of the supposedly nineteenth-century developments, such as the codification of Islamic law, are rooted in much earlier centuries. In so doing, the book offers a new periodization of Islamic legal history in the eastern Islamic lands.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title
• Series information
• Title page
• Copyright information
• Table of contents
• Acknowledgments
• Note on Transliteration and Dates
• Introduction
• 1 Muftīs
• 2 Genealogies and Boundaries
• 3 Genealogies and Boundaries II
• 4 Books of High Repute
• 5 Intra-Madhhab Plurality and the Empire’s Legal Landscape
• Conclusion The Second Formation of Islamic Law
• Appendix A The Classification of the Authorities of the Ḥanafī School
• Appendix B Kefevî’s Chains of Transmission
• Appendix C Minḳârîzâde’s and al-Ramlī’s Bibliographies
• Selected Bibliography
• Index