UID:
almahu_9948669651202882
Format:
1 online resource (264 pages).
ISBN:
9780190077075 (ebook) :
Series Statement:
Oxford scholarship online
Content:
This text is a study of the Muslim world's entanglement with colonial modernity. More specifically, it is an historical examination of the development of the long-standing, indigenous tradition of learning and praxis known as Islamic law (sharia, fiqh) as a result of its imbalanced interaction with new European modes of knowing during, and in the immediate aftermath of, the colonial experience. Drawing upon the writings of jurist-scholars from the anaf school of law writing in Cairo, Kazan, Lucknow, Baghdad, and Istanbul, 'Transformations of Tradition' reveals several central shifts in Islamic legal writing that throw into doubt the possibility of reading its later trajectory through the lens of a continuous 'tradition.'
Note:
Also issued in print: 2021.
Additional Edition:
Print version : ISBN 9780190077044
Language:
English
URL:
Oxford scholarship online
