The Messiah and the Jurisconsult: Agamben on the Problem of Law in Sunni Islam
Although Giorgio Agamben engages Islam at various points in his work, it occupies an ambivalent role in his hypothesis that messianism constitutes the limit concept of the law. This article amplifies that ambivalence in order to explore how centering the shari‘a would confuse certain categorical div...
Main Author: | |
---|---|
Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
Journals Online & Print: | |
Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
Published: |
University of Chicago Press
2021
|
In: |
The journal of religion
Year: 2021, Volume: 101, Issue: 3, Pages: 351-370 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Agamben, Giorgio 1942-
/ Messianism
/ Islamic law
|
RelBib Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism AD Sociology of religion; religious policy BJ Islam XA Law |
Online Access: |
Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |