Authority, Continuity and Change in Islamic Law
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In this path-breaking new book, the author shows how authority guaranteed both continuity and change in Islamic law. Hallaq demonstrates that it was the construction of the absolutist authority of the school founder, an image which he suggests was actually developed later in history, that maintained the foundations of school methodology and hermeneutics. The defense of that methodology gave rise to an infinite variety of individual legal opinions,...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0521803314
ISBN13:9780521803311
Release Date:July 2001
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:284 Pages
Weight:1.29 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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