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Origins of Islamic Law: The Qur'an, the Muwatta' and Madinan Amal (Culture and Civilization in the Middle East)
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by Yasin Dutton
Sales Rank: 1277511
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Cover Type: Paperback with 264 pages
Published by: RoutledgeCurzonEdition: 1st Edition August 30, 2002
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0700716696
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0700716692
Book Dimensions:
8.7 x 5.6 x 0.8 inches
Weighs: 12.6 ounces
Product Review
Yasin Dutton makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the juristic activity in early Islam. His book produces a systematic and thorough study of the methodologies and legal techniques of Malik's Muwatta', and in so doing, it sheds important light on the origins of Islamic law.
–Khaled Abou El Fadl, International Journal of Middle East Studies
Product Description
If the Qur'an is the first written formulation of Islam in general, Malik's Muwatta' is arguably the first written formulation of the Islam-in-practice' that becomes Islamic law. This book considers the methods used by Malik in the Muwatta' to derive the judgements of the law from the Qur'an and is thus concerned on one level with the finer details of Qur'anic interpretation. However, since any discussion of the Qur'an in this context must also include considerations of the other main source of Islamic law, namely the sunna, or normative practice, of the Prophet, this latter concept, especially its relationship to the terms of had th and amal (traditions' and living tradition'), also receives considerable attention, and in many respects, this book is more about the history and development of Islamic law than it is about the science of Qur'anic interpretation.
Reader Reviews
Dutton's work is fascinating for numerous reasons, but the most prominent among them is the amount of detail spent in examining the jurisprudence of the Medinans, specifically as represented by Malik. I found much of what Dutton wrote to be healthy balance to some of the more extreme interpretations of Goldziher and Schacht insofar as Dutton is able to supercede the naivity of the current traditional approach to hadith among Muslim scholars of Islamic law while simultaneously integrating the conclusions of critical scholarship. Essential to the work and one of its main contributions as well is the treatment of the Qur'an as a source for jurisprudence and legal reasoning in Islam alongside the sunnah, 'amal, ra'y, etc.
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