Medieval Islamic Pragmatics Sunni Legal Theorists' Models of Textual Communication

Name: Medieval Islamic Pragmatics Sunni Legal Theorists' Models of Textual Communication
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ISBN: 9780415567770

ISBN-10: 0415567777

ISBN-13: 9780415567770

Edition: 2000

Authors: Muhammad M. Yunis Ali

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This book deals with two different pragmatic approaches to textual communication: (i) the mainstream approach followed by the 'Ash'ari s, Hanafi s and Mu'tazili s, (ii) the salafite approach followed mainly by the Hanbali s, defended and elaborated by Ibn Taymiyyah. One of the primary aims of the book is to explore and formulate several Muslim legal theorists' pragmatic theories, communicative principles and linguistic views, construct them in the form of models and set them within a general uniform framework. Another aim is to reveal a corpus of information and data which, though highly relevant to modern pragmatics, is still unknown. This study, which can be seen as an extensive…

Book details

List price: $38.99
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 10/6/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 268
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English