Disagreements of the Jurists
Devin Stewart, al-Qadi al-Nu'man · 2015
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"Al-Qāḍimal-Nu'mān was the chief legal theorist and ideologue of the North African Fatimid dynasty in the tenth century. This translation makes available in English for the first time his major work on Islamic legal theory (uṣūl al-fiqh), which presents a legal model in support of the Fatimids' principle of legitimate rule over the Islamic community. Composed as part of a grand project to establish the theoretical bases of the official Fatimid legal school, Disagreements of the Jurists expounds a distinctly Shi'i system of hermeneutics, which refutes the methods of legal interpretation adopted by Sunni jurists"--
Book details
- Year
- 2015
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- NYU Press
- Editions
- 3
- Pages
- 448
- ISBN
- 9780814763759
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