Wael B. Hallaq
Auteur van The Origins and Evolution of Islamic Law
Over de Auteur
Wael B. Hallaq is the Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University.
Werken van Wael B. Hallaq
Reforming Modernity: Ethics and the New Human in the Philosophy of Abdurrahman Taha (2019) 5 exemplaren
Tārīkh al-naẓarīyāt al-fiqhīyah fī al-Islām : muqaddimah fī uṣūl al-fiqh al-Sunnī (2007) 3 exemplaren
قصور الاستشراق: منهج في نقد العلم الحداثي 1 exemplaar
مدخل إلى الشريعة الإسلامية 1 exemplaar
İslam Hukukuna Entelektüel Bakış 1 exemplaar
Tagged
Algemene kennis
- Geboortedatum
- 1955
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- Palestine (birth)
- Land (voor op de kaart)
- USA
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Statistieken
- Werken
- 19
- Leden
- 402
- Populariteit
- #60,416
- Waardering
- 4.2
- Besprekingen
- 2
- ISBNs
- 44
- Talen
- 2
First sentence is "One of the fundamental features of the so-called modern Islamic resurgence is the call to restore the Shari'a, the religious law of Islam."
The last sentence is "The rise of modern dictatorships in the wake of the colonial experiences of the Muslim world is merely one tragic result of the process in which modernity wreaked violence on venerated traditional cultures."
Law is a cornerstone "in the reaffirmation of Islamic identity". The author does not seem perplexed by the irony -- a modern resurgence of religious law, a revenant claim of uniqueness behind a thrust for global dominance. Further, the author asserts that "even though the formative and modern periods" are two of the "most studied epochs", somehow they "remain comparatively unexplored". Perhaps this reflects the experience which scholars discover as they search for the Origins of Islamic Law--it disappears before it gets to 622. In the author's own words: "The quality of the sources from the first centuries of Islam is historiographically problematic." In my words, it is mythic.
The author notes that we now know that Joseph Schacht's findings have to be incorrect, and the all-important legal schools as "personal juristic entities" did not come into existence for another century--around the middle of the 10th century. [2]… (meer)