Ebu’s-su`ud: The Islamic Legal Tradition (Jurists: Profiles in Legal Theory) - Hardcover

Imber, Colin

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ISBN 10: 0804729271 ISBN 13: 9780804729277

Verlag: Stanford University Press, 1997

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"Colin Imber's study of the sixteenth-century Ottoman Sheikh al-Islam, Ebu's-Su'ud, the preeminent jurisconsult of the Ottoman Empire, is an illuminating and timely addition to a sparse, but growing, literature dedicated to this more proximate inheritance of the contemporary Islamic world." -- Comparative Studies in Society & History

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The jurist Ebu's-suud (c. 1490-1574) occupies a key position in the history of Islamic law. An Ottoman tradition, which began in the seventeenth century and which modern historians often reiterate, asserts that Ebu's-suud succeeded in harmonizing the secular law with the shari 'a, creating, in effect, a new ideal Islamic legal system. This book examines the validity of this assertion. The author begins by choosing five areas of Islamic law for analysis: the Sultan and legal sovereignty; land tenure and taxation; trusts in mortmain; marriage and the family; and crimes and torts. In each of these areas, he lays out the most important rules and concepts in the Islamic juristic tradition, and then gives his translations of a selection of Ebu's-suud's writings on the topic in question, with a brief analysis. From these materials, the author suggests that readers draw their own conclusions as to whether Ebu's-suud did indeed reconcile Ottoman secular legal practice with the sacred law.

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• Verlag: Stanford University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0804729271
• ISBN 13: 9780804729277
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304