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Disagreements of the Jurists: A Manual of Islamic Legal Theory: 22 (Library of Arabic Literature)

Disagreements of the Jurists: A Manual of Islamic Legal Theory: 22 (Library of Arabic Literature)

by Devin Stewart (Translator), Devin Stewart (Editor), John Sexton (Foreword), John J. Coughlin (Foreword), al-Qa?i al-Nu?man (Author)

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Synopsis

A masterful overview of Islamic law and its diversity

Al-Qadi al-Nu'man was the chief legal theorist and ideologue of the North AfricanFatimid dynasty in the tenth century. This translation makes available for thefirst time in English his major work on Islamic legal theory (usul al-fiqh),which presents a legal model insupport of the Fatimid claim to legitimate rule.

Composed as part of a grand project to establish the theoreticalbases of the official Fatimid legal school, Disagreements of the Juristsexpounds a distinctly Shi'i system of hermeneutics. The work begins with adiscussion of the historical causes of jurisprudential divergence in the firstIslamic centuries and goes on to engage, point by point, with the specificinterpretive methods of Sunni legal theory. The text thus preserves importantpassages from several Islamic legal theoretical works no longer extant, and inthe process throws light on a critical stage in the development of Islamiclegal theory that would otherwise be lost to history.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 256
 Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 03 Oct 2017
ISBN 10: 1479808075
ISBN 13: 9781479808076

Media Reviews
This book will be useful especially to those who are interested in the history of law and...the history of the Fatimids. -Speculum
[Disagreements of the Jurists] is very important for students of jurisprudence and for reconstructing fiqh's development.-The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences
Stewart has rendered al-Nu'man's work into intelligible and elegant English, in keeping with the goals of the Library of Arabic Literature series to open up certain valuable and influential works in theArabic tradition to a wider reading public. -Journal of the American Oriental Society
Author Bio
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. John Coughlin is the Global Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies and Law at NYU Abu Dhabi. John Sexton is the Benjamin Butler Professor of Law at NYU and served as the 15th President of NYU from 2002 to 2015. 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 author of the Fatimid Empire, his work founded Isma'ili law as a discipline.