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The Canonization of Islamic Law: A Social and Intellectual History

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The Canonization of Islamic Law: A Social and Intellectual History - El Shamsy, Ahmed
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The Canonization of Islamic Law tells the story of the birth of classical Islamic law in the eighth and ninth centuries CE. It shows how an oral normative tradition embedded in communal practice was transformed into a systematic legal science defined by hermeneutic analysis of a clearly demarcated scriptural canon. This transformation was inaugurated by the innovative legal theory of Muhammad b. Idris al-Shafi'i (d. 820 CE), and it took place against the background of a crisis of identity and religious authority in ninth ...

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The Canonization of Islamic Law: A Social and Intellectual History 2015, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9781107546073

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