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The anthropology of Islamic law : education, ethics, and legal interpretation at Egypt's al-Azhar /

This book shows how hermeneutic theory and practice theory can be brought together to analyze cultural, legal, and religious traditions. These ideas are developed through an analysis of the Islamic legal tradition, which examines both Islamic legal doctrine and religious education. In terms of disci...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nakissa, Aria (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2019.
Subjects:
Jāmiʻat al-Azhar.
Jāmiʻat al-Azhar
al-Azhar University > Kairo
Islamic law > Study and teaching.
Islamic law > Egypt.
Droit islamique > Étude et enseignement.
Droit islamique > Égypte.
RELIGION > Islam > General.
Islamic law
Islamic law > Study and teaching
Egypt
Fikh
Islamisches Recht
Juristische Methodik
Juristisches Studium
Rechtsanthropologie
Ägypten
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Hermeneutic theory and practice theory in the study of cultural, legal, and religious traditions
  • Higher religious learning in modern Egypt
  • Shari a, Sunna, and ethics
  • Acquiring knowledge through companionship (suhba)
  • The sanad
  • Taking from the mouths of shaykhs (mushafaha)
  • The structure of islamic legal thought
  • Reorganizing time and space
  • Transforming the act of reading
  • Salafism and wasatism.