Law, empire, and the sultan : Ottoman imperial authority and late Ḥanafī jurisprudence / Samy A. Ayoub.
Publisher's description: This book proposes that late Hanafī legal scholarship in the early modern period secured a role for the Ottoman sultanic authority in the process of lawmaking. It finds the reigning arguments for an epistemic divorce between the domain of Islamic law and the authority o...
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| Other title: | Law, empire, and the sultan : Ottoman imperial authority and late Hanafī jurisprudence. |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2020]
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| Series: | Oxford Islamic legal studies.
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Table of Contents:
- Ibn Nujaym : the father of late Hanafism?
- "The Sultan says" : Ottoman Sultanic authority in late Hanafī jurisprudence
- If Abu Hanifa were here : authority, continuity, and revision in late Hanafi jusrisprudence
- The Ottoman rationale for codification : the Mecelle
- Conclusion
- Appendices.