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We're not in Kufa anymore: The construction of late Hanafism in the early modern Ottoman Empire, 16th-19th centuries CE

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We're not in Kufa anymore: The construction of late Hanafism in the early modern Ottoman Empire, 16th-19th centuries CE

[Thesis]

Samy Ayoub

Lucas, Scott C.

The University of Arizona

2014

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Committee members: Ahmad, Ahmad; Nassar, Maha T.; Noorani, Yaseen

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-14493-2

Ph.D.

Near Eastern Studies

The University of Arizona

2014

At the intersection of religion, law, and the state lies the opportunity to explore the impact of the state on the legal order. This study investigates such an impact through an examination of authoritative Hanafi legal works from the 16^th - 19^th centuries CE, casting new light on the understudied late Hanafi jurists (al-muta'akhkhirun) in the early modern period. This dissertation argues that jurists secure the authority of the late Hanafi school (madhhab) through engagement with legal texts from previous generations of Hanafi s, disclosure of the reasoning that underlies late Hanaf i legal opinions, and invocation of principles, authorities, and juridical formulas that construct late Hanafism in the early modern period in particular ways. I demonstrate how late Hanafi jurists develop their own identities, opinions, and consensus in relation to earlier Hanafi opinions. For late Hanafis, the past authorities, texts, and opinions were never irrelevant: the past constituted a point of reference and continuity for their scholarship. The division of Hanafis into late and early is not simply a matter of time, although it is true that the late Hanafis produce legal works chronologically later than the early Hanafi s did. The distinction is more important for identifying that there is a tradition which characterizes the group of scholars identified as being chronologically 'late' that develops in the Mamluk and Ottoman periods.

Religion; Law; Middle Eastern Studies

Philosophy, religion and theology;Social sciences;Ibn abidīn, muḥammad amīn;Islamic law;Legislation;Mecelle;Ottoman empire;Ḥanafism

Johnston, Jeffrey

Lucas, Scott C.

Near Eastern Studies

The University of Arizona

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