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020			_a9781139649711 (ebook)
020			_z9781107041486 (hardback)
020			_z9781107546073 (paperback)
040			_aUkCbUP _beng _erda _cUkCbUP
050	0	0	_aKBP50 _b.E4 2013
082	0	0	_a340.5/9 _223
100	1		_aEl Shamsy, Ahmed, _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe Canonization of Islamic Law : _bA Social and Intellectual History / _cAhmed El Shamsy.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2013.
300			_a1 online resource (264 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016).
520			_aThe 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.
650		0	_aCanonization
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9781107041486
856	4	0	_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139649711
942			_2Dewey Decimal Classification _ceBooks
999			_c37454 _d37454