Between God and Society Divine Speech and Norm-Construction in Islamic Theology and Jurisprudence
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[Thesis]
First Statement of Responsibility
Omar Farahat
Subsequent Statement of Responsibility
Hallaq, Wael B.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Columbia University
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2016
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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327
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-369-30557-9
DISSERTATION (THESIS) NOTE
Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree
Ph.D.
Discipline of degree
Middle East, South Asian and African Studies
Body granting the degree
Columbia University
Text preceding or following the note
2016
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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The role of divine Revelation in the process of construction of normative judgments has long occupied scholars of religion in general, and Islam in particular. In the area of Islamic studies, numerous works were dedicated to the elucidation of various trends of thought on the question of the methods of formulation of norms and values. Many of those studies suppose a distinction between textualist and rationalist theories, and use this framework to explain the most influential Muslim views on this issue. In contemporary philosophical theology and the philosophy of religion, theorists of religious meta-ethics draw upon the medieval and early modern Christian debates almost exclusively. Reconstructing the philosophical foundations of classical Islamic models of norm-construction, which arise within both theological and jurisprudential works, has not received sufficient attention in either discipline.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Religion; Philosophy; Ethics; Islamic Studies
UNCONTROLLED SUBJECT TERMS
Subject Term
Philosophy, religion and theology;Social sciences;Ashʿarīs and muʿtazilīs;Divine command ethics;Islamic jurisprudence;Islamic theology;Natural law theories;Reason and revelation