TY  - BOOK
AU  - El Shamsy,Ahmed
TI  - The Canonization of Islamic Law: A Social and Intellectual History 
SN  - 9781139649711 (ebook)
AV  - KBP50 .E4 2013
U1  - 340.5/9 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Canonization
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016)
N2  - The Canonization of Islamic Law tells the story of the birth of classical Islamic law in the eighth and ninth centuries CE. It shows how an oral normative tradition embedded in communal practice was transformed into a systematic legal science defined by hermeneutic analysis of a clearly demarcated scriptural canon. This transformation was inaugurated by the innovative legal theory of Muhammad b. Idrīs al-Shāfi'ī (d. 820 CE), and it took place against the background of a crisis of identity and religious authority in ninth-century Egypt. By tracing the formulation, reception, interpretation and spread of al-Shāfi'ī's ideas, the author demonstrates how the canonization of scripture that lay at the heart of al-Shāfi'ī's theory formed the basis for the emergence of legal hermeneutics, the formation of the Sunni schools of law, and the creation of a shared methodological basis in Muslim thought
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139649711
ER  -