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The Logic of Law-making in Islam: Women and Prayer in the Legal Tradition

ISBN: 9781107009097 | 110700909X
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr
Pub. Date: 2/28/2013

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SummaryTable of Contents
This pioneering study examines the process of reasoning in Islamic law. Some of the key questions addressed here include whether sacred law operates differently from secular law, why laws change or stay the same and how different cultural and historical settings impact the development of legal rulings. In order to explore these questions, the author examines the decisions of thirty jurists from the largest legal tradition in Islam: the Hanafi school of law. He traces their rulings on the question of women and communal prayer across a very broad... MORE
A general model
Preliminaries
Women praying with men: adjacency
Women praying with women
Women praying with men: communal prayers
The historical development of Hanafi reasoning
From laws and values
The logic of law making
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