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Doubt in Islamic Law: A History of Legal Maxims, Interpretation, and Islamic Criminal Law


ISBN13: 9781107440517
Published: November 2017
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: UK
Format: Paperback (Hardback in 2015)
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This book considers an important and largely neglected area of Islamic law by exploring how medieval Muslim jurists resolved criminal cases that could not be proven beyond a doubt, calling into question a controversial popular notion about Islamic law today, which is that Islamic law is a divine legal tradition that has little room for discretion or doubt, particularly in Islamic criminal law. Despite its contemporary popularity, that notion turns out to have been far outside the mainstream of Islamic law for most of its history. Instead of rejecting doubt, medieval Muslim scholars largely embraced it. In fact, they used doubt to enlarge their own power and to construct Islamic criminal law itself.

Through examination of legal, historical, and theological sources, and a range of illustrative case studies, this book shows that Muslim jurists developed a highly sophisticated and regulated system for dealing with Islam's unique concept of doubt, which evolved from the seventh to the sixteenth century.

Subjects:
Islamic Law
Contents:
Introduction
Part I. Institutional Structures and Doubt, Seventh–Sixteenth Century CE:
1. The God of severity and lenity
2. The rise of doubt
Part II. Morality and Social Context, Eighth–Eleventh Century CE:
3. Hierarchy and hudud laws, eighth–ninth century CE
4. Doubt as moral discomfort, tenth–eleventh century CE
Part III. The Jurisprudence of Doubt, Eighth–Sixteenth Century CE:
5. Doubt as an element of Islamic criminal law, eighth–eleventh century CE
6. Substantive, procedural, and interpretive doubt, eleventh–sixteenth century CE
7. Strict textualism as a limitation on doubt: Sunni opponents, eighth–eleventh century CE
8. Dueling theories of delegation and interpretation: Shi'i doubt, tenth–sixteenth century CE
Conclusion: doubt in comparative and contemporary context.

Series: Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization

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