Disagreements of The Jurists: A Manual of Islamic Legal Theory

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“This book will be useful especially to those who are interested in the history of law and… the history of the Fatimids.”

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Al-Qadi al-Nu’măn was the chief legal theorist and ideologue of the North African Fatimid dynasty in the tenth century. This translation makes available for the first time in English his major work on Islamic legal theory (usül al-figh), which presents a legal model in support of the Fatimid claim to legitimate rule. Composed as part of a grand project to establish the theoretical bases of the official Fatimid legal school, Disagreements of the Jurists expounds a distinetly Shi’i system of hermeneutics. The work begins with a discussion of the historical causes of jurisprudential divergence in the first Islamic centuries and goes on to engage, point by point, with the specific interpretive methods of Sunni legal theory. The text thus preserves important passages from several Islamie legal theoretical works no Jonger extant, and in the process throws light on a critical stage in the development of Islamic legal theory that would otherwise be lost to history.

AL-QADI AL-NU’MAN (d. 364 H/974 AD) was born in Tunisia and joined the service of the Fatimids in 313 H/925 AD, eventually rising to the position of supreme judge. As the most important jurist and legal writer of the Fatimid Empire, his work laid the foundations of Ismail Shi’i law asN a discipline.

DEVIN J. STEWART is Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Emory University. He has written on the Qur’an, Shi’i Islam, and Islamic legal education.

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Weight 0.65 kg
Dimensions 20.5 × 14 × 2.5 cm
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Paperback

ISBN

9781479808076

Pages

288

Publisher

New York University Press

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