Kecia Ali

Imam Shafi'i

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Muhammad ibn Idris al-Shafi'i (767-820) was one of Islam's foundational legal thinkers. Shafi'i considered law vital to social and cosmic order: the key obligation of each Muslim was to obey God, and it was through knowing and following the law that human beings fulfilled this duty. Drawing on the most recent scholarship on Shafi'i's work as well as her own investigations into his life and writings, Kecia Ali explores Shafi'i's innovative ideas about the nature of revelation and the necessary if subordinate role of human reason in extrapolating legal rules from revealed texts. This study sketches his life in his intellectual and social contex… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-78074-004-1
EAN: 9781780740041
Produktnummer: 17007731
Verlag: Oneworld Publications
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
Seitenangabe: 160 S.
Plattform: EPUB
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Über den Autor

Kecia Ali is Associate Professor of Religion at Boston University. She is a world authority on Islamic jurisprudence, and author of Sexual Ethics and Islam: Feminist Reflections on Qur'an, Hadith and Jurisprudence.