Visions of sharīʻa : : contemporary discussions in Shi'i legal theory / / edited by Ali-reza Bhojani, Laurens de Rooij, Michael Bohlander.

• Superior document: Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste - Abhandlungen beider Klassen; volume117
• TeilnehmendeR: Bhojani, Ali Reza,; De Rooij, Laurens,; Bohlander, Michael, 1962-; Al-Mahdi Institute,; University of Durham,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden Boston : : BRILL,, 2020.
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste - Abhandlungen beider Klassen; volume117.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 pages).
• Notes: Includes index.; "This collection of papers is the result of a two-day conference held in August 2015 in St Aidan's College at Durham University, organised jointly by the Al-Mahdi Institute in Birmingham and Durham's research group Islam, Law and Modernity (ILM)." --ECIP preface.

In Visions of Sharīʿa Bhojani, De Rooij and Bohlander present the first broad examination of ways in which legal theory ( uṣūl al-fiqh ) within Twelver Shīʿī thought continues to be a forum for vibrant debates regarding the assumptions, epistemology and hermeneutics of Sharīʿa in contemporary Shīʿī...