Disagreements – Al-Qadi al’Nu’man was the main lawmaker and theorist of North African Fatimid dynasty in the 10th century. This translation is available to the world for the first time English his most important study of Islamic theorizing on law ( usul al-fiqh) that provides the legal basis for the Fatimid assertion of legitimate government.
Disagreements – As part of a larger project to establish the theological foundations of the official Fatimid Legal school Differing Jurists is a Shi’i-specific hermeneutics system. The book starts with a discussion of the historical roots of divergence in jurisprudential doctrines during the early Islamic centuries.
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It then goes on to deal, point by point, with the unique interpretational methods used in Sunni law theory. This text preserves key passages from a variety of Islamic legal theories that are which are no longer available and sheds light on an important moment in the development of Islamic legal theory that could otherwise be lost to the history of time.
A version in English only.
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Product details
- ASIN : B06XYPL243
- Publisher : NYU Press (October 3, 2017)
- Publication date : October 3, 2017
- Language : English
- File size : 2569 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Not Enabled
- Print length : 334 pages
- Lending : Not Enabled
Al-Qadi al Nu’man(d. 364/974) was born in Tunisia and was appointed to the ranks to the Fatimids in 313/925, later ascending to the post of supreme judge. He was the most important jurist and author of the law for the Fatimid Empire his work established Isma’ililaw as an academic discipline.
Devin J. Stewart is Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Emory University. He has written about his research on the Qur`an, Shi’i Islam, as well as Islamic educational law.
John J. Coughlinis Global Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies and Law and NYU, Abu Dhabi and Affiliated Faculty at NYU Law School and author of Canon Law: A Comparative Study with Anglo-American Legal Theory and Law Person and Community Theological, Philosophical in addition to Comparative Perspectives on Canon Law.
John Sexton is the Benjamin Butler Professor of Law at NYU and was the 15th president of NYU between 2002 and 2015. The text in this article refers to an alternative kindle edition.
