عنوان

From God's nature to God's law: Theology law and legal theory in Islam

Number

TL48924

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انگلیسی

Title Proper

From God's nature to God's law: Theology law and legal theory in Islam

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Abdul-Rahman Mustafa

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Opwis, Felicitas M. M.

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Georgetown University

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2016

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

387

Text of Note

Committee members: Anjum, Ovamir; Brown, Jonathan A. C.

Text of Note

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-339-98112-3

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

Ph.D.

Discipline of degree

Arabic & Islamic Studies

Body granting the degree

Georgetown University

Text preceding or following the note

2016

Text of Note

This study explores the ways in which theological ideas regarding the nature of God shaped the jurisprudential and legal landscape of Islam in the classical period. Focusing on the traditionalist theological and jurisprudential thought of the Hanbalī intellectuals Ibn Taymiyyah (d. 728/1328) and Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah (also known as Ibn al-Qayyim) (d. 751/1350) this study traces the way in which these two scholars developed a critique of the dominant theological-jurisprudential tradition of their day, which was influenced by dialectical theology. Against the dialectical theologians, Ibn Taymiyyah and Ibn al-Qayyim argued that an authentically fideist, consistent and rational theory of Islamic law could only emerge from an acceptance of the reality of God's voluntary attributes. The study situates these debates on the influence of theology on law and legal theory in Islamic history within an overall account of the influence of theology on modern Anglo-American law and secularism. It concludes by remarking upon the ways in which classical discussions on the relationship between Islamic theology and legal theory have been appropriated and utilized in the modern period to ground disparate theories of Islamic legal reform, ranging from Islamic secularism and liberalism to neo-traditionalism.

Law; Theology; Islamic Studies

Subject Term

Philosophy, religion and theology;Social sciences;Hanbali school;Ibn Taymiyyah;Ibn al-Qayyim;Islam;Law;Theology

Carruthers, Andrew Michael

Opwis, Felicitas M. M.

Subdivision

Arabic & Islamic Studies

Georgetown University

Call Number

1823291726; 10142846

Electronic name

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[Thesis]

276903

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