Contingency in a sacred law : : legal and ethical norms in the Muslim fiqh / / Baber Johansen.

• Superior document: Studies in Islamic Law and Society Series ; v.7
• VerfasserIn: Johansen, Baber,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston ;, Köln : : BRILL,, 1998.
• Year of Publication: 1998
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Islamic Law and Society Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

A focus on the way in which Muslim scholars of the Hanafite school of Muslim law, from the 10th-12th centuries, adapted their legal norms to changing circumstances and distinguished between legal and ethical norms, religious and legal status, legal propositions and religious judgment. The introduction links this debate to the sociology of law and spells out the distinction between theology and law in Islam.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Copyrights and permissions -- Transliteration -- Introduction -- The Muslim fiqh as a sacred law -- I. The city and its norms -- I.1. The all-embracing town and its mosques. al-miṣr al-ǧāmīʿ -- I.2. The servants of the mosques -- I.3. Amwāl Ẓāhira and Amwāl Bāṭina: town and countryside as reflected in the tax system of the Ḥanafite school -- I.4. Urban structures in the view of Muslim jurists: the case of Damascus in the early nineteenth century -- II. Legal norms and social practices -- Coutumes locales et coutumes universelles aux sources des règles juridiques en Droit musulman hanéfite -- III. Legal rationality and ethical norms -- Die sündige, gesunde Amme. Moral und gesetzliche Bestimmung (ḥukm) im islamischen Recht -- IV. Property as an institution of social integration -- Secular and religious elements in Hanafite law. Function and limits of the absolute character of government authority -- V. Political authority as foundation of social integration: a territorial concept of law -- V.1. Entre révélation et tyrannie: le droit des non-musulmans d'après les juristes musulmans -- V.2. Derʿiṣma-Begriff im hanafitischen Recht -- V.3. Staat, Recht und Religion im sunnitischen Islam. Können Muslime einen religionsneutralen Staat akzeptieren? -- VI. Equality and exchange under the penal law -- Eigentum, Familie und Obrigkeit im hanafitischen Strafrecht. Das Verhältnis der privaten Rechte zu den Forderungen der Allgemeinheit in hanafitischen Rechtskommentaren -- VII. Proof and procedure as a key to the fiqh's structure -- VII.1. Zum Prozessrecht der ʿuqūbāt -- VII.2. Le jugement comme preuve. Preuve juridique et vérité religieuse dans le Droit Islamique hanéfite -- VIII. How the norms change.

Legal literature and the problem of change: The case of the land rent -- IX. The quest for substantive justice -- Droit et justice dans l'Etat Islamique. Paysans, ouvriers et fuqahāʾ -- Index.