Authority, Conflict, and the Transmission of Diversity in Medieval Islamic Law
Description:... Acknowledgements p. xi List of Figures p. xv List of Tables p. xix Introduction: Crisis, Legal Decline, and the Tabaqat Genre p. 1 Historiography, eschatology, and the ideology of crisis p. 4 Biography and the discourse of legal and moral decline p. 9 An overview of the development of the tabaqat genre p. 10 Tabaqat and the crisis of authority during the Mamluk period p. 17 Tabaqat al-fuqaha' al-shafi'iyah and the crises of the Circassian period p. 22 Overview of the study p. 23 Chapter 1 A Brief Biography of Ibn Qadi Shuhbah p. 27 Early life and family p. 27 Education and life as a scholar p. 28 Professional career p. 35 Crisis and the first edition of the Tabaqat p. 38 Overview of the text p. 41 Ibn Qadi Shuhbah's rise and fall and the final editions of his Tabaqat p. 48 Final years p. 51 Chapter 2 A Brief Discursus on the Diversity of Source Material and Authorial Choice p. 55 The Formation of biographical traditions p. 56 Thematic variation: The example of Abu al-Qasim al-Daraki p. 63 Al-Hakim's Tarikh nisabur p. 64 Al-'Abbadi's Kitab tabaqat al-fuqaha' al-shafi'iyah p. 66 Abu Ishaq al-Shirazi's Tabaqat al-fuqaha' p. 68 Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi's Tarikh baghdad p. 71 Thematic variation and Ibn Qadi Shuhbah's biography p. 76 Terminological variation and authorial choice p. 84 Chapter 3 Micro-Textual Rhetorical Strategies in Ibn Qadi Shuhbah's Text: Authority, Death, and the Origins of Ikhtilaf in the Shafi'i Madhhab p. 89 A socio-rhetorical analysis of tabaqat p. 89 Micro-textual rhetorical strategies p. 91 Allusion: kinayah, ta'rid and ramz p. 93 Causation in legal tabaqat p. 102 Legal tabaqat as an expression of a jurisprudential historiography p. 103 The hypertextual nature of tabaqat texts p. 106 Conclusion p. 113 Chapter 4 Macro-Textual Rhetorical Strategies: Trends in Learning as Indicators of Intellectual Development p. 115 Ranking and classification p. 117 Repetition p. 120 Akhadha p. 123 Ishtaghala/Ashghala p. 125 Qara'a p. 128 Takharraja p. 131 Hassala and bahatha p. 134 Darasa/Darrasa and Tafaqqaha p. 135 Progression p. 139 Chapter 5 The Development of Trends in the Transmission of 'Ilm p. 149 Ibn Qadi Shuhbah's reconstruction of Islamic legal history p. 152 Mujtahids p. 164 Furu' and ikhtilaf p. 166 The three ashabs p. 167 Madhhab p. 173 Hafiz p. 174 Tariq p. 176 A Model of Islamic Legal History p. 176 Conclusion p. 182 Chapter 6 The Development of Legal Methodologies and the Decline of Legal Thinking p. 187 The early development of legal method: al-Shafi'i's usul p. 189 Ibn Qadi Shuhbah's depiction of usul al-fiqh p. 192 The rise of 'ulum al-'aql (the sciences of reason) p. 195 The development of sub-schools of legal method p. 198 Specializations in the expedient sciences and the decline of legal thought p. 214 Chapter 7 Curatives for the Decline of Law p. 225 Substantive rules and madhhab: Legal consensus and limited Khilaf p. 229 The transmission of ikhtilaf p. 233 The origins of ikhtilaf p. 234 The difference between the authority to espouse a divergent opinion and to debate divergent opinions p. 235 The texts of ikhtilaf p. 239 The al-Muzani complex of ikhtilaf texts p. 240 The al-Ghazali complex of ikhtilaf texts p. 243 Al-Matlab fi sharh al-wasit p. 245 Al-Wajiz p. 246 Al-'Aziz sharh al-wajiz p. 247 Al-Rawdat al-talibin p. 252 Conclusion p. 252 Chapter 8 Ibn Qadi Shuhbah, Crisis, and His Authority p. 255 Authority and the production of tabaqat texts p. 257 Lineage p. 258 Intellectual Pedigree p. 267 Bibliography p. 281 Index.
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