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Rebellion and Violence in Islamic Law

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ISBN-10: 0521793114

ISBN-13: 9780521793117

Edition: 2001

Authors: Khaled Abou El Fadl

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Discussing the idea and treatment of political resistance and rebellion in Islamic law, this text examines the emergence and development of these discourses from the 8th to the 15th centuries, and considers juristic responses.
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Book details

List price: $147.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 11/1/2001
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 404
Size: 6.30" wide x 9.25" long x 1.26" tall
Weight: 1.672
Language: English

Preface and acknowledgments
Introduction
Modern scholarship and reorienting the approach to rebellion
The doctrinal foundations of the laws of rebellion
The historical context and the creative response
The rise of the juristic discourse on rebellion: fragmentation
The spread of the Islamic law of rebellion from the fourth/tenth to the fifth/eleventh centuries
Rebellion, insurgency and brigandage: the developed positions and the emergence of trends
The developed non-Sunni positions
Negotiating rebellion in Islamic law
Works cited
Indexes