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Publication year: 2007
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| Series: | Studies in Islamic Law and Society, 30 |
| ISBN-13 (i)The ISBN (International Standard Book Number) has been changed from 10 to 13 digits on 1 January 2007: | 978 90 04 16360 7 |
| ISBN-10: | 90 04 16360 3 |
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| Cover: | Hardback |
| Number of pages: | xvi, 444 pp.. |
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| List price: | € 129.00 / US$ 191.00 |
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Table of contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1: Shāfiʿī’s Concept of the Bayān
I. Introduction II. The Idea at the Heart of the Risāla: Shāfiʿī’s Concept of the Bayān
III. The Bayān and the Structure of the Risāla
IV. Previous Scholarly Accounts of Shāfiʿī’s Notion of the Bayān
V. The Reception of Shāfiʿī’s Concept of the Bayān
VI. Conclusion
Chapter 2: Hermeneutical Techniques
I. Introduction
II. General Hermeneutical Terms and Principles
III. Hermeneutical Rubrics Describing Source Interaction
IV. Hermeneutical Rubrics Specific to the Hadith
V. Ijtihād and Qiyās
VI. Conclusion
Chapter 3: Prophetic Sunna and Hadith in the Risāla
I. Introduction
II. The Authority of the Sunna
III. The Khabar al-Wāḥid and its Wider Implications
IV. Conclusion
Chapter 4: The Qurʾān in Shāfiʿī’s Risāla
I. Introduction
II. Shāfiʿī’s Discussion of the Qurʾān
III. Shāfiʿī’s Use of the Qurʾān
IV. Conclusion
Chapter 5: Shāfiʿī’s Epistemology
I. Introduction
II. Shāfiʿī’s Concept of Knowledge (ʿIlm)
III. Objectively Correct Answers
IV. Shāfiʿī’s Epistemological Dualism
V. Conclusion
Chapter 6: Internal Evidence for the Risāla’s Polemical Context
I. Introduction
II. Dramatis Personae
III. The Risāla as Theological Polemic
IV. Conclusion
Chapter 7: Ijmāʿ in the Risāla
I. Introduction
II. Previous Conceptions of Ijmāʿ
III. The Authority of Ijmāʿ and its Relationship to the Sunna
IV. Ijmāʿ as a Tool of Legal Reasoning
V. Example Problems in which Shāfiʿī Appeals to ijmāʿ
VI. Schacht and Calder on Ijmāʿ in Shāfiʿī’s Legal Thought
VII. Conclusion
Conclusion: The Risāla and its Relationship to Mature Uṣūl al-Fiqh
Appendix
Bibliography
Indices
Readership
All those interested in early Islam, Islamic law, Islamic theology, early Islamic thought, as well as scholars of ancient legal thought, legal theory, and comparative law.
About the author(s)
Joseph E. Lowry, Ph.D. (1999) in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Pennsylvania, is Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania. He has published on Islamic law and Arabic literature.
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The Risāla of al-Shāfiʿī (d. 204/820), the earliest preserved work of Islamic legal theory, has been understood in previous scholarship as either the elaboration of a hierarchy of sources of law (Qurʾān, Sunna, consensus, and analogical reasoning) or an extended defense of the Sunna. Through a careful rereading of this celebrated text, this book offers a comprehensive reinterpretation of the Risāla, in which Shāfiʿī formulated an all-encompassing hermeneutic that portrays the law as a tightly interlocking structure organized around defined interactions of the Qurʾān and the Sunna. Topics covered include Shāfiʿī’s creative account of the law’s architectonics, hermeneutical techniques, legal epistemology, relationship to kalām, and the role of consensus (ijmāʿ).
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