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...

Table of Contents

• Front Matter
• Copyright page
• Preface / Ali-Reza Bhojani, Laurens de Rooij and Michael Bohlander
• Notes on Contributors
• Visions of Sharīʿa: An Introduction / Ali-Reza Bhojani
• The Reception of Factuality (taṣwīb) Theories of Ijtihād in Modern Uṣūlī Shīʿī Thought / Seyyed Mostafa Mohaghegh Damad
• Reassessing the Pivotal Role of Certainty in Modern Shīʿī Uṣūlī Legal Method: A Case for Accepting a Wider Range of Evidence in the Inference of Sharīʿa Precepts / Hashim Bata
• The Role of the Quran in Legal Reasoning (Ijtihād): A Shīʿī Perspective / Rahim Nobahar
• From Theory to Practice: The Role of the Subject in the Derivation of Rulings and Its Potential in Creating a System of Case Law for the Operation of Shīʿī Law / Imranali Panjwani
• Strategic Juristic Omission and the Non-Muslim Blood Price: An Examination of Shīʿī Fiqh and Practice / Haider Ala Hamoudi
• Towards the Hermeneutics of a Justice-Oriented Reading of Sharīʿa / Ali-Reza Bhojani
• Maqāṣid al-Sharīʿa Discourse in Contemporary Shīʿī Jurisprudence / Hassan Beloushi
• Epilogue / Robert Gleave
• Back Matter
• al-Sayyid ʿAlī al-Ḥusaynī al-Sīstānī on Uṣūl al-fiqh in Twelver Shīʿī Thought: Its Importance and Historical Phases / Ali-Reza Bhojani
• Index.