The Codification Episteme in Islamic Juristic Discourse between Inertia and Change
Many historians view Islamic law as an organic and methodologically coherent system in which there is a systematic link between legal methodology (uṣūl) and substantive law (furūʿ). In this essay, I will argue against the conventional view, drawing support from the evolutionary trajectories of four...
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Brill
2015
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Islamic law and society
Jahr: 2015, Band: 22, Heft: 3, Seiten: 157-220 |
| weitere Schlagwörter: | B
pragmatic eclecticism
B school boundary-crossing |
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| Zusammenfassung: | Many historians view Islamic law as an organic and methodologically coherent system in which there is a systematic link between legal methodology (uṣūl) and substantive law (furūʿ). In this essay, I will argue against the conventional view, drawing support from the evolutionary trajectories of four genres of juridical writing: abridged legal compendia (mukhtaṣars); juristic disagreement (ikhtilāf); the commentary/supercommentary (sharḥ/ḥāshiya); and legal responsa (fatāwā) genres. The post-thirteenth century evolution of these genres reveals a pronounced tendency to marginalize the relationship between legal methodology and substantive law, privileging a codification ethos. Judges and low-ranking jurisconsults were expected to “apply” legal rules and frequently abandoned legal methodology as an avenue for legal change in favor of pragmatic school boundary-crossing. In doing so, they were less concerned with intra-school methodological coherence than with pursuing juristic flexibility by focusing on the content of the law rather than its process. |
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| ISSN: | 1568-5195 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Islamic law and society
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685195-00223p01 |