Of Jalal al- Din al - Suyuti: authority and legacy
First Statement of Responsibility
\ Rebecca Skreslet Hernandez
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Oxford
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: Oxford University Press
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, 2017
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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viii, 238p
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Oxford Islamic legal studies
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Based on author's thesis (Doctoral - Georgetown University, Washington, DC, 2012) issued under the title: Framing the jurist : the legal persona of Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti
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Index
CONTENTS NOTE
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Authority by persuasion : power relations in al-Suyuti's legal opinion on scharly stipends -- Authority by association : consensus vs. ignorance in al-Suyut¯i 's legal opinion on logic -- Authority by articulation : the language of religious revival and reform in al-Suyuti 's Tajdid genre -- Authority by aggregation and abstraction : the pragmatics of communication in al-Suyut¯i 's book on legal precepts -- Authority by allusion : the legacy of al-Suyuti in contemporary Egypt -- Conclusion