Authority, Continuity and Change in Islamic Law

Name: Authority, Continuity and Change in Islamic Law
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ISBN: 9780521023931

ISBN-10: 0521023939

ISBN-13: 9780521023931

Edition: 2005

Authors: Wael B. Hallaq

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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, ultimately accomodating changes in the law. Thus the author concludes that the mechanisms of change were embedded in the very structure of Islamic law, despite its essentially conservative nature.

Book details

List price: $74.99
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 11/17/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 284
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English




Juristic typologies: a framework for enquiry



Early ijtihad and the later construction of authority



The rise and augmentation of school authority



Taqlid: authority, hermeneutics and function



Operative terminology and the dynamics of legal doctrine



The jurisconsult, the author-jurist and legal change


Summary and conclusions