New readings in Arabic historiography from late medieval Egypt and Syria : proceedings of the themed day of the Fifth Conference of the School of Mamluk Studies [PDF]
, 2021 The present volume contributes to research on historic Arabic texts from late medieval Egypt and Syria. Departing from dominant understandings of these texts through the prisms of authenticity and “literarization,” it engages with questions of textual ...
Termonia, Maya, Van Steenbergen, Jo
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What’s The Difference? Distinctions, Furūq, And Development In Post-Formative Islamic Law [PDF]
, 2017 This dissertation is a study of the “legal distinctions” (al-furūq al-fiqhiyya) literature and its role in the development of Islamic legal thinking.
Saba, Elias Gabriel
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Barren women: religion and medicine in the medieval Middle East [PDF]
, 2020 This book explores the ramifications of being infertile in the medieval Arab-Islamic world by examining legal texts, medical treatises, and works of religious preaching. The author illuminates how attitudes toward mixed-gender interactions legal theories
Verskin, Sara
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From Text to Law: Islamic Legal Theory and the Practical Hermeneutics of Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad Al-Ṭaḥāwī (d. 321/933) [PDF]
, 2016 Scholars of Islamic law point to the absence of any extant work of legal theory between the Risāla of al-Shāfiʿī and the Fuṣūl of al-Jaṣṣāṣ as a major barrier to reconstructing the history of Islamic legal thought.
Brunelle, Carolyn Anne
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Sacred Orientation: The Qibla As Ritual, Metaphor, And Identity Marker In Early Islam [PDF]
, 2018 Scholars of early Islam often take for granted the title of this study—that facing the qibla (i.e. the geographic direction of worship) is an important Islamic ritual and that Muḥammad’s turn toward the Kaʿba after facing Jerusalem for prayer marked the ...
Gordon, Ari Michael
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Expert Submission to the Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief: Report to the United Nations General Assembly on Eliminating Intolerance and Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief and the Achievement of Sustainable Development Goal 16 (SDG 16) [PDF]
, 2020 General Remarks 1. This submission provides observations and recommendations for an enlightened interpretation of apostasy in Islamic law that deconstructs the notion that it is a capital crime and demonstrates the legitimacy of
Nazir, Amna
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Scholastic Traditional Minimalism: A Critical Analysis of Intra-Sunni Sectarian Polemics [PDF]
, 2015 This thesis is an analytical exploration of the influence of medieval theology on contemporary scholastic traditionalist polemics within Sunni Islam.
Islam, Tajul
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Tawhid and Qur’anic Interpretation in Early 20th-Century Minangkabau: A Philological-Theological Study of Abdul Latif Syakur’s al-Tawḥīd (1882–1963) [PDF]
The Islamic reform movement in early 20th-century Minangkabau, West Sumatra, evolved through three phases. The first phase involved intellectual engagement, followed by military conflict, and later, modernization through education. During the third phase,
Benny Afwadzi +3 more
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Collective Duties (farḍ Kifāya) In Islamic Law: The Moral Community, State Authority And Ethical Speculation In The Premodern Period [PDF]
, 2018 This dissertation studies a unique subset of legal obligations in Islamic law known as “collective duties” (farḍ kifāya) and focuses on juristic writing in the premodern period between the 9th and 14th centuries C.E.
Zulfiqar, Adnan
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Hvordan forstå endringer i før-moderne sharia? [PDF]
Sharia blir ofte framstilt som noe strengt og uforanderlig. Både konservative muslimer og såkalte islam-kritikere presenterer gjerne sharia som statisk og avledet av Koranen og sunnaen en gang for alle.
Eirik Hovden
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