Islamic Imperial Law
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Islamic Imperial Law

Harun-Al-Rashid's Codification Project

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eBook - PDF

Islamic Imperial Law

Harun-Al-Rashid's Codification Project

About this book

Despite the historical and contemporary significance of the Sharia, it has not yet been possible to solve the puzzle of its origins. Whereas previous research has postulated a greater or lesser degree of endogenous Islamic development, the present study reaches a different conclusion, namely that at the end of the 8th century Muslim state lawyers in Baghdad codified an Islamic "Imperial Law", oriented strongly towards Roman-Byzantine law. It is part of an Islamic-Byzantine context, and can only be explained against this intercultural background.

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Information

Publisher
De Gruyter
Year
2011
Print ISBN
9783110190489
eBook ISBN
9783110924343
Edition
1
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
World History

Table of contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Part I. The Origins of Islamic Law
  3. I. Preliminaries
  4. Chapter 1: Special Indicators of Reception
  5. 1.1. The Emergence of Islamic Legal Literature
  6. 1.2. Uniformity of Islamic Law
  7. 1.3. The Emergence of Personal Law Schools
  8. 1.4. Critical Reactions
  9. 1.5. Centralization of Judiciary
  10. 1.6. The Emergence of Islamic Humanism
  11. 1.7. Wave of Codifications
  12. 1.8. Abundance of Comparative Studies
  13. Chapter 2: Circumstances of Reception
  14. 2.1. Muslims Involved in the Reception
  15. 2.2. Date and Place of the Reception
  16. 2.3. Translators
  17. 2.4. Commissions
  18. Chapter 3: Comparative Analysis
  19. 3.1. Sources
  20. 3.2. Structure
  21. 3.3. Legal Fields
  22. 3.4. Deficiency Law
  23. Part II. Islamic Imperial Law
  24. Preliminaries
  25. Chapter 4: Ideological Basis
  26. Chapter 5: Codification and Dissemination
  27. 5.1. The Imperial Code: Ẓāhir al-riwāya
  28. 5.2. Islamic Government and Codification
  29. 5.3. Binding Force of the Imperial Code
  30. 5.4. Centralization of the Judiciary
  31. 5.5. Dissemination of Ḥanafism
  32. Part III. From Imperial to Jurists’ Law
  33. Preliminaries
  34. Chapter 6: The Byzantine Factor
  35. 6.1. General Predisposition to Cultural Exchange
  36. 6.2. Contacts
  37. 6.3. Names and Catchwords
  38. 6.4. Literature
  39. 6.5. Chronology
  40. Chapter 7: The Origins of Uṣūl al-fiqh
  41. 7.1. Preliminaries
  42. 7.2. Shaybānī’s Uṣūl Work
  43. 7.3. The Shift to Orthodoxy: Shāfi‘ī’s Risāla
  44. Chapter 8: The Islamic Organon
  45. 8.1. Preliminaries
  46. 8.2. The Divine Premise
  47. 8.3. The Philosophical School
  48. 8.4. Comparative Analysis: Organon - Uṣūl al-fiqh
  49. 8.5. Scientization of Jurisprudence
  50. Conclusion
  51. Appendix 1: Cases
  52. Appendix 2: Judges
  53. Appendix 3: Terms
  54. Abbreviations
  55. Bibliography
  56. Index of Persons