The Logic of Law-making in Islam: Women and Prayer in the Legal Tradition
ISBN: 9781107009097 | 110700909X
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Cambridge Univ Pr
Pub. Date: 2/28/2013
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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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