Harmonizing Similarities : : A History of Distinctions Literature in Islamic Law / / Elias G. Saba.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2019 Part 1
• VerfasserIn: Saba, Elias G.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Islam – Thought, Culture, and Society , 1
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (X, 248 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Acknowledgements --; Contents --; Introduction --; Chapter One: What Is a Legal Distinction? --; Chapter Two: A General History of Distinctions --; Chapter Three: Jadal as a Source for Legal Writings: The Cases of Khilāf and Furūq --; Excursus: The Logic of Legal Distinctions --; Chapter Four: Riddles and Entertainment --; Chapter Five: A Bibliographic Survey of the Distinctions Genre --; Conclusion --; Appendix I: Bibliography of Furūq Works by Madhhab --; Appendix II: Chronological Furūq Bibliography --; Appendix III: The Manuscripts of Furūq-A: Table of Contents --; Appendix IV: The Manuscripts of Furūq-B (Najm al-Dīn Naysābūrī, attrib.): Table of Contents --; Works Cited --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110605792; 9783110762464; 9783110719567; 9783110616859; 9783110610765; 9783110664232; 9783110610741; 9783110606508; 9783110716825
• ISSN: 2628-4286
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110605792
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Elias G. Saba.

"Harmonizing Similarities" is a study of the legal distinctions (al-furūq al-fiqhiyya) literature and its role in the development of the Islamic legal heritage. This book reconsiders how the public performance of Islamic law helped shape legal literature. It identifies the origins of this tradition in contemporaneous lexicographic and medical literature, both of which demonstrated the productive potential of drawing distinctions. Elias G. Saba demonstrates the implications of the legal furūq and how changes to this genre reflect shifts in the social consumption of Islamic legal knowledge. The interest in legal distinctions grew out of the performance of knowledge in formalized legal disputations. From here, legal distinctions incorporated elements of play through its interactions with the genre of legal riddles. As play, books of legal distinctions were supplements to performance in literary salons, study circles, and court performances; these books also served as mimetic objects, allowing the reader to participate in a session virtually. Saba underscores how social and intellectual practices helped shape the literary development of Islamic law and that literary elaboration became a main driver of dynamism in Islamic law. This monograph has been awarded the annual BRAIS – De Gruyter Prize in the Study of Islam and the Muslim World.