Ethics and Analogy (Qiyās) in 5th/11th Century Islamic Legal Theory

Felicitas Opwis (Autor)

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250 Seiten

2025
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-72077-0 (ISBN)

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In Ethics and Analogy Opwis traces the 5th/11th century shift in Islamic legal theory toward understanding the purpose of God’s law as attaining people’s maṣlaḥa in this life, which enables extending the law outside of Scripture and Ashʿarī legal universalism.

In Ethics and Analogy (Qiyās) in 5th/11th Century Islamic Legal Theory Felicitas Opwis presents how ʿAbd al-Jabbār, Abū l-Ḥusayn al-Baṣrī, al-Dabbūsī, al-Shīrāzī, and al-Juwaynī relate the ethical status of acts to their legal norm, and whether they apply the ethical content of divine rulings in the procedure of analogy when extending laws to new circumstances. The study draws attention to theological worldview as an explanatory factor of norm construction and a jurist’s approach to identifying the ratio legis of divine rulings. The book traces the shift, fully articulated later by al-Ghazālī, toward understanding the purpose of the divine law as attaining people’s maṣlaḥa in this life, which enables extending the law outside of Scripture and supports Ashʿarī legal universalism.

Felicitas Opwis, Ph.D. (2001), Yale University, is Associate Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Georgetown University. She has published on the development of Islamic legal theory, in particular on the concept of maṣlaḥa and purpose of the law.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	23.1.2025
Reihe/Serie	Islamic Thought and History ; 1
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	1 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
ISBN-10	90-04-72077-4 / 9004720774
ISBN-13	978-90-04-72077-0 / 9789004720770
Zustand	Neuware