Law, Empire, and the Sultan: Ottoman Imperial Authority and Late Hanafi Jurisprudence

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Law, Empire, and the Sultan: Ottoman Imperial Authority and Late Hanafi Jurisprudence

By Samy A. Ayoub
Oxford University Press January 2020

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ISBN-13
9780190092924
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Publication
January 2020
Format
Hardback
Jurisdiction
U.S. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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This book is the first study of late Hanafism in the early modern Ottoman Empire. It examines Ottoman imperial authority in authoritative Hanafi legal works from the Ottoman world of the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries CE, casting new light on the understudied late Hanafi jurists (al-muta'akhkhirun). By taking the madhhab and its juristic discourse as the central focus and introducing "late Hanafism" as a framework of analysis, this study demonstrates that late Hanafi jurists assigned probative value and authority to the orders and edicts of the Ottoman sultan. This authority is reflected in the sultan's ability to settle juristic disputes, to order specific opinions to be adopted in legal opinions (fatawa), and to establish his orders as authoritative and final reference points. The incorporation of sultanic orders into authoritative Hanafi legal commentaries, treatises, and fatwa collections was made possible by a shift in Hanafi legal commitments that embraced sultanic authority as an indispensable element of the lawmaking process.

Table of Contents

Note on Transliteration
List of Figures
About the Author
Introduction
Chapter 1. Ibn Nujaym: The Father of Late Hanafism?
Chapter 2. "The Sultan Says": Ottoman Sultanic Authority in Late Hanafi Tradition
Chapter 3. If Abu Hanifa Were Here: Authority, Continuity, and Revision in Late Hanafi Jurisprudence
Chapter 4. Ottoman Rationale for Codification: The Mecelle
Conclusion
Appendix A. Examples of Early and Late Hanafi Opinions in Ibn Abidin's Hashiya
Appendix B. Examples of Ma'rudat in al-Haskafi's al-Durr al-Mukhtar
Appendix C. Examples of Early and Late Hanafi Opinions in Radd al-Muhtar
Appendix D. Examples of Ma'rudat Abi al-Su'ud in Radd al-Muhtar
Appendix E. Thematic Tables of the Mecelle Articles
Bibliography
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