UID:
almahu_9949701017202882
Format:
1 online resource (276 pages) :
,
illustrations.
ISBN:
9789004661189
Series Statement:
Middle East and Islamic Studies - Book Archive pre-2000 4
Content:
The Sunni schools of law are named for jurisprudents of the eighth and ninth centuries, but they did not actually function so early. The main division at that time was rather between adherents of ra'y and hÌ£adÄ«th . No school had a regular means of forming students. Relying mainly on biographical dictionaries, this study traces the constitutive elements of the classical schools and finds that they first came together in the early tenth century, particularly with the work of Ibn Surayj (d. 306/918), al-KhallÄl (d. 311/923), and a series of hÌ£anafÄ« teachers ending with al-KarkhÄ« (d. 340/952). MÄlikism prospered in the West for political reasons, while the zÌ£ÄhirÄ« and JarÄ«rÄ« schools faded out due to their refusal to adopt the common new teaching methods. In this book the author fleshes out these historical developments in a manner that will be extremely useful to the field, while at the same time developing some new and highly original perspectives.
Note:
Preliminary Material /
,
English
Additional Edition:
Print version: The Formation of the Sunni Schools of Law, 9th-10th Centuries C.E.. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 1997. ISBN 9789004109520
Language:
English
