{"product_id":"disagreements-of-the-jurists-a-manual-of-islamic-legal-theory-paperback-softback-9781479808076","title":"Disagreements of the Jurists; A Manual of Islamic Legal Theory (Paperback \/ softback) 9781479808076","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eDisagreements of the Jurists\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Manual of Islamic Legal Theory\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eal-Qāḍī al-Nuʿmān (Author), Devin Stewart (Edited and translated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781479808076\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 3 October 2017\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e256 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.408 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"\u003cp\u003e\"Stewart has rendered al-Nu'mans work into intelligible and elegant English, in keeping with the goals of the Library of Arabic Literature series to open up certain valuable and influential works in the\u003cbr\u003e Arabic tradition to a wider reading public.\u003c\/p\u003e \" (Journal of the American Oriental Society) \"[Disagreements of the Jurists]is very important for students of jurisprudence and for reconstructing fiqh's development\" (The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences) \"This book will be useful especially to those who are interested in the history of law and secondarily those who are interested in the history of the Fatimids.\" (Speculum)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA masterful overview of Islamic law and its diversity\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Al-Qadi al-Nu'man 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, 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, \u003ci\u003eDisagreements of the Jurists\u003c\/i\u003e expounds a distinctly Shi'i system of hermeneutics, which refutes the methods of legal interpretation adopted by Sunni jurists. \u003cbr\u003e The work begins with a discussion of the historical causes of jurisprudential divergence in the first Islamic centuries, and goes on to address, point by point, the specific interpretive methods of Sunni legal theory, arguing that they are both illegitimate and ineffective. While its immediate mission is to pave the foundation of the legal Isma'ili tradition, the text also preserves several Islamic legal theoretical works no longer extant—including Ibn Dawud's manual, \u003ci\u003eal-Wusul ila ma'rifat al-usul\u003c\/i\u003e—and thus throws light on a critical stage in the historical development of Islamic legal theory (\u003ci\u003eusul al-fiqh\u003c\/i\u003e) that would otherwise be lost to history.\u003cbr\u003e A bilingual Arabic-English edition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"NYU Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52681690022168,"sku":"9781479808076","price":12.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/disagreements-of-the-jurists-a-manual-of-islamic-legal-theory-paperback-softback-9781479808076","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}