The Life of Shari'a (eBook)

A Comparative Anthropology of Law

Youssef Belal (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
374 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-41006-0 (ISBN)

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Is there a way to think about contemporary life with knowledge that is neither modern nor Western? Rather than confining Islam to a “religion” and shariʿa to its “law,” Youssef Belal provocatively argues that Islamic shariʿa is a mode of knowledge with its own concepts and scholarly categories through which the world and the self are grasped. The Life of Shariʿa considers two intertwined lineages: how Islamic scholars have formulated knowledge from the classical period to today and how Westerners have understood the law and its origins. By melding these two traditions, Belal puts the formation of modern law under a new light and offers, through a compelling conceptualization of shariʿa, a powerful argument for its continued relevance to the life of contemporary Muslims.

Inhalt

Contents
 
Preface and Acknowledgments
Note on Translation and Transliteration
 
Introduction
 
Part One. Politics
1. Jurisprudence of the Revolution
2. Law, Power, and Shariʿa’s Incompleteness
 
Part Two. Spirituality
3. Spiritual Ethics and the Unseen World
4. The Spiritual Topography of the Self in Classical Islam
5. Truth of the Law, Truth of the Self, and Dis-embodiment
 
Part Three. Jurisprudence
6. Worship, Social Interactions, and Shariʿa’s Displacement
7. Islamic Legal Knowledge and the New Real
 
Part Four. Episteme
8. Kalām and the Islamic Episteme
9. Revealed Speech and the Sources of Jurisprudence
 
Part Five. Genealogy
10. Canon Law and the Christian Self
11. The Law of Conversion
12. Inner Self, Collective Self, and the Law of the Universal
 
Part Six. Reason
13. Modernist Reason and Shariʿa
14. Law and the Shaping of the Self in Contemporary Europe
15. Islamic Reason
Conclusion
 
Notes
Bibliography
Index
 

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.5.2025
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Östliche Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• ISBN-10: 0-520-41006-8 / 0520410068
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-41006-0 / 9780520410060