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Islam and Literalism: Literal Meaning and Interpretation in Islamic Legal Theory


ISBN13: 9780748689866
Published: September 2013
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Country of Publication: Scotland
Format: Paperback (Hardback in 2012)
Price: £24.99



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One of the characteristics of the 'conservative religious revival' movements in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is the commitment to a scriptural text as the sole source of knowledge, and an insistence on the literal interpretation of this text. However little has been to done to investigate this phenomenon of interpretation which proposes the literal meaning as the only acceptable one.

This book fills this gap with respect to Islam, looking both at literal meaning and literalism. The focus is on the tradition of Muslim legal writings: in this literature there exists a complex procedure of how to identify the literal meaning and the role it has in interpreting texts.

The author also makes reference to Quranic exegesis (tafsir) and Arabic rhetorical works, since many of the ideas of legal hermeneutics were derived from these cognate traditions of learning. The overall aim is to take an important modern phenomenon (Muslim commitment to the literal meaning of the revelatory texts) and place it in an historical context.

The Muslim debates analysed in the book are described through the prism of modern Western linguistic philosophy, and a chronology of the development of Muslim conceptions of literal meaning structures the book.

Subjects:
Islamic Law
Contents:
Preface
1. Understanding Literal Meaning
2. Literal Meaning and Scriptural Exegesis
3. Literal Meaning In Early Muslim Thought
4. Literal Meaning in Early Muslim Jurisprudence
5. Literal Meaning in Sunni Jurisprudence
6. Legal Literalism and Early Zahiri Legal Thought
7. Literalism and Ibn Iazm's Legal Theory
8. Literal Meaning in Early Sectarian Legal Theory
9. Literal Meaning in Classical Imami Legal Theory
10. Literal Meaning in Modern Muslim Legal Theory
Conclusions
Bibliography.