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The Second Formation of Islamic Law: The Hanafi School in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire

The Second Formation of Islamic Law: The Hanafi School in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire

Name: The Second Formation of Islamic Law: The Hanafi School in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781107462076
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Author: Guy Burak
ISBN: 9781107462076

By Guy Burak

Cambridge University Press January 2017

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ISBN-13: 9781107462076
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication: January 2017
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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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.

Introduction

1. Muftis

2. Genealogies and boundaries I: situating the imperial learned hierarchy within the Hanafi jurisprudential tradition

3. Genealogies and boundaries II: two responses from the Arab provinces of the empire

4. Books of high repute

5. Intra-madhhab plurality and the empire's legal landscape

Conclusion: the second formation of Islamic law.

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