Robert Gleave
Biographic Data
| ID | 347114 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Gleave |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Gleave |
| SIGNATURE | GLEAVE R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Exeter |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2535-3721 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Al-Muḥaqqiq al-Ḥillī (d. 676/1277) and His al-Muḫtaṣar al-Nāfīʿ
In this article, I examine the characteristic features of the important Twelver Šīʿī legal breviary ( muḫtaṣar ) titled al-Muḫtaṣar al-Nāfiʿ by al-Muḥaqqiq al-Ḥillī (d. 676/1277). This work has been the focus of much study and commentary by Twelver Šīʿī scholars over the centuries, and with al-Muḥaqqiq’s other legal breviary, Šarāʾiʿ al-Islām , holds a leading position in the number of commentaries within the tradition. Commentaries were written …
Islamic Law in Context: A Primary Source Reader
This volume surveys the diversity of Islamic legal thought and practice, a 1500 - year tradition that has been cultivated throughout the Islamic world. It features translations of Islamic legal texts from across the spectrum of literary genres (including legal theory, judicial handbooks, pamphlets) that represent the range of temporal, geographic and linguistic contexts in which Islamic law has been, and continues to be, developed. Each text has …
Interpretations of Literality: Muslim Legal Hermeneutics and Whitman's Five Questions
Jon Whitman, in his opening contribution to the collection of essays Interpretation and Allegory: Antiquity to the Modern Period , poses questions about interpretive communities' assessment of the "literal sense" of canonical texts, about the criteria for downplaying parts of these texts in the process of allegorization, about the influence of enhanced allegorization on changes in the interpretive communities, and the continuities of idiom and or…
Moral Assessments and Legal Categories: The Relationship between Rational Ethics and Revealed Law in Post-Classical Imāmī Shīʿī Legal Theory
In this chapter, I examine the discussion around the rational and moral basis for legal categories in postclassical Imāmī Twelver Shīʿī legal theory. The debate was pushed forward by the Akhbārī movement in the 17th century CE; they proposed a novel position concerning the rational basis for the law in which reason can determine certain moral aspects of an action (e.g., a good action can be recognised by reason, and its performance attracts prais…
Violence in Islamic Thought from European Imperialism to the Post-Colonial Era
Explores Muslim attitudes towards violence from the 19th century to the present day Examines perceptions and expressions of violence in a wide range of contexts in the modern period: Algeria, Afghanistan, Egypt, India, Iraq, Israel, Libya, Nigeria, Palestine, Syria, Tunisia and Yemen Shows the nuances behind headline-making events and organisations such as al-Qaeda, the Taliban, Islamic State, Salafi jihadism, the Mahdi Army, Hamas, Hezbollah and…
Violence in Islamic Thought from the Mongols to European Imperialism
Rationalist Disciplines and Postclassical Islamic Legal Theories: Introduction
The Rebel and the Imam: The Uprising of Zayd al-Nār and Shiʿi Leadership Claims
Muhammad Taqi al-Majlisi and Safavid Shi‘ism: Akhbarism and Anti-sunni Polemic During the Reigns of Shah ‘Abbas the Great and Shah Safi
The rise of the Akhbari school in the Safavid period has been portrayed as a challenge to both the clerical power of the ʿulamaʾ and sometimes even as in opposition to the Safavid state. As a counter example to these characterisations of Akhbarism, one might consider the example Muhammad Taqi al-Majlisi (d.1070/1659), known as “The First Majlisi”, and father of the famous Safavid scholar Muhammad Baqir al-Majlisi (“The Second Majlisi”, d.1110/169…
Violence in Islamic Thought from the Qurʾan to the Mongols
Violence in Islamic Thought from the Qur'an to the Mongols
Violence in Islamic Thought from the Qur'an to the Mongols
The topic of Legitimate and Illegitimate Violence in Islamic Thought (LIVIT) calls for an interdisciplinary, comparative and historical approach. This has been the underlying methodological assumption within the project which bore this name. Amongst the products of that three-year project is a series of collected studies by established and emerging scholars in the field, examining how Muslim thinkers have conceptualised violence and categorised (…
Early Shiite hermeneutics and the dating ofKitāb Sulaym ibn Qays
TheKitāb Sulaym ibn Qays, a collection of sayings attributed to ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib, was supposedly collected by the (otherwise unknown) Sulaym b. Qays al-Hilālī (d. 76/678); the work is generally recognized as an important source for early Shīʿī thought. There has been much debate, both within the Shīʿī tradition and outside of it, over when its contents reached their current form and how representative they were of Shīʿī views in the early centur…
Islamic Law in Theory: Studies on Jurisprudence in Honor of Bernard Weiss
The contributions of Bernard Weiss to the study of the principles of jurisprudence (uṣūl al-fiqh) are recognized in a series of contributions on Islamic legal theory. These thirteen chapters study a range of Islamic texts and employ contemporary legal, religious, and hermeneutical theory to study the methodology of Islamic law. Contributors include: Peter Sluglett, Ahmed El Shamsy, Éric Chaumont, A. Kevin Reinhart, Mohammad Fadel, Jonathan Brocko…
Report of the Council
La eficacia legal de actos de taqiyya en la jurisprudencia imami: Al-Risāla fi l-taqiyya de ‛Alī al-Karakī
La šī‛a imāmí está estrechamente asociada a la doctrina del disimulo (taqiyya). En general, los juristas imāmíes permitieron a los creyentes actuar contraviniendo a la «verdadera» šarī‛a en circunstancias de taqiyya. Para estas transgresiones permitidas no había castigo, no se incurría en pecado ni repetición ni compensación con tal de que los actores legales guardaran unos límites estipulados. En el siglo X/XVI el famoso jurista ‛Alī al-Karakī i…
Report of the Council
Islam and Literalism: Literal Meaning and Interpretation in Islamic Legal Theory
Traces the emergence and development of the idea of literal meaning in Islamic legal hermeneutics GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748689866','ISBN:9780748625703','ISBN:9780748631131','ISBN:9780748655540']); In this reading of Islamic legal hermeneutics, Robert Gleave explores various competing notions of literal meaning, linked to both theological doctrine and historical developments, together with insights from modern semantic and pragma…
Report of the Council
Dispensing Justice in Islam: Qadis and their Judgements * Edited by Muhammad KHALID Masud, RUDOLPH Peters and David S. Powers
Journal Article Dispensing Justice in Islam: Qadis and their JudgementsEdited by Muhammad Khalid Masud, Rudolph Peters and David S. Powers Get access Dispensing Justice in Islam: Qadis and their JudgementsEdited by Muhammad Khalid Masud, Rudolph Peters and David S. Powers (Leiden: Brill, 2006; Studies in Islamic Law and Society 22), xiv + 591 pp. Price HB €150.00. EAN 978–9004140677. Robert Gleave Robert Gleave University of Exeter Search for oth…
Personal piety
The collections of sayings and actions of the Prophet Muḥammad record his life in the minutest detail, including the Prophet's advice about the benefits of hair care: “The Prophet said: “Combing [one's hair] expels infectious diseases and moisturizing expels misery.” / The Prophet forbade brushing one's hair two times in a day. / The Prophet said, “Good hair is God's kiswa [the cloth covering of the Ka'ba in Mecca] - so treat it with respect.”” /…
Islamic Jurisprudence in the Classical Era
Norman Calder is still considered a luminary in the field of Islamic law. He was one among a handful of Western scholars who were beginning to engage with the subject. In the intervening years, much has changed, and Islamic law is now understood as fundamental to any engagement with the study of Islam, its history, and its society. In this book, Colin Imber has put together and edited four essays by Norman Calder that have never been previously p…
Recent Research into the History of Early Shi'ism
This article examines some of the scholarship on early published in the last decade in English, French and German. Particular emphasis is paid to the emergence of the majority trend, its self‐definition and the development of doctrinal unity. Any social or political history of early will inevitably be partial as the division between these categories of analysis and the intellectual development of dogma and doctrine is somewhat artificial when con…
The ‘Future’ of Islamic Studies: A Clutch of Conferences
Scripturalist Islam: The History and Doctrines of the Akhbārī Shīʿī School
The Akhbārī School dominated the intellectual landscape of Imāmī Shiʿism between the Seventeenth and early Nineteenth Centuries. Its principal doctrines involved a reliance on scripture (primarily the sayings or akhbār of the Shiʿite Imams) and a rejection of the rational exegetical techniques which had become orthodox doctrine in Imāmī theology and law. However, the Akhbārīs were not simple literalists, as they are at times portrayed in secondar…
Conceptions of Authority in Iraqi Shi'ism: Baqir al-Hakim, Ha’iri and Sistani on Ijtihad, Taqlid and Marja’iyya
One of the most obvious differences between recent Shi'ite and Sunni political activism is the dominance of clerical leadership in the former and lay leadership in the latter. This article examines the reasons for this difference, analysing the authority theories of three contemporary Iraqi Shi'ite clerics. Ayatallah Baqir al-Hakim, until his death in 2003, was the ideologue of the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq, the military wing…
Early Shiite hermeneutics and the dating ofKitāb Sulaym ibn Qays
TheKitāb Sulaym ibn Qays, a collection of sayings attributed to ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib, was supposedly collected by the (otherwise unknown) Sulaym b. Qays al-Hilālī (d. 76/678); the work is generally recognized as an important source for early Shīʿī thought. There has been much debate, both within the Shīʿī tradition and outside of it, over when its contents reached their current form and how representative they were of Shīʿī views in the early centur…
Between Hadīth and Fiqh: The "Canonical" Imāmī Collections of Akhbār
In Imāmī legal theory, the akhbār of the Imams form one of the material sources of law, alongside the Qur'ān and Prophetic hadīths. The akhbār are presented in compendia, assembled by Shi'ite collectors in the fourth and fifth century AH/tenth and eleventh century CE, four of which subsequently came to be regarded as "canonical" in Imāmī law. In this essay, I examine the processes at work in the collation of these "canonical" akhbār collections. …
Muhammad Taqi al-Majlisi and Safavid Shi‘ism: Akhbarism and Anti-sunni Polemic During the Reigns of Shah ‘Abbas the Great and Shah Safi
The rise of the Akhbari school in the Safavid period has been portrayed as a challenge to both the clerical power of the ʿulamaʾ and sometimes even as in opposition to the Safavid state. As a counter example to these characterisations of Akhbarism, one might consider the example Muhammad Taqi al-Majlisi (d.1070/1659), known as “The First Majlisi”, and father of the famous Safavid scholar Muhammad Baqir al-Majlisi (“The Second Majlisi”, d.1110/169…
Recent Research into the History of Early Shi'ism
This article examines some of the scholarship on early published in the last decade in English, French and German. Particular emphasis is paid to the emergence of the majority trend, its self‐definition and the development of doctrinal unity. Any social or political history of early will inevitably be partial as the division between these categories of analysis and the intellectual development of dogma and doctrine is somewhat artificial when con…
Political Aspects of Modern Shi‘i Legal Discussions: Khumayni and Khu'i on ijtihâd and qada’
Modern Šῑcῑ Discussions of ḫabar al-wāḥid: Ṣādr, Ḫumaynī and Ḫūɔī
The Ijāza from Yūsuf Al-Baḥrānī (D. 1186/1772) to Sayyid Muḥammad Mahdī Baḥr al-'Ulūm (D. 1212/1797-8)
Etude portant sur une Ijāza conservee a la bibliotheque de Qom grâce a une copie du siecle dernier
Norman Calder (1950-1998)
Marrying Fatimid Women: Legal Theory and Substantive Law in Shī'ī Jurisprudence
In this essay, I examine one area of substantive law ( furū' al-flqh ) which figured prominently in the Akhbārī-Uṣūlī dispute in Shī̒̒'ī legal history: the legality of the marriage of one man to two women descended from the daughter of the Prophet, Fāṭima. Through an analysis of two risālas on this issue, one by an Akhbārī and the other by an Uṣūlī, I aim to demonstrate that the relationship between Uṣūl alfiqh and substantive law in the Akhbārī …
Inevitable Doubt: Two Theories of Shī‘ī Jurisprudence
In this volume, two classical texts of legal theory (usūl al-fiqh) are analysed. The authors of these works belonged to two schools of Shī‘ī jurisprudence: Yūsuf al-Baḥrānī (d. 1186/1772) was a key figure in the Akhbārī school, and his adversary, Muḥammad Bāqir al-Bihbahāanī (d. 1206/1791-2) was credited with the revival of the Usūli school and the defeat of Akhbarism after Baḥrānī's death. Through a comparison of the two writers' theories, this …
Islamic Law: Theory and Practice
Between Hadīth and Fiqh: The "Canonical" Imāmī Collections of Akhbār
In Imāmī legal theory, the akhbār of the Imams form one of the material sources of law, alongside the Qur'ān and Prophetic hadīths. The akhbār are presented in compendia, assembled by Shi'ite collectors in the fourth and fifth century AH/tenth and eleventh century CE, four of which subsequently came to be regarded as "canonical" in Imāmī law. In this essay, I examine the processes at work in the collation of these "canonical" akhbār collections. …
Political Aspects of Modern Shi‘i Legal Discussions: Khumayni and Khu'i on ijtihâd and qada’
Modern Šῑcῑ Discussions of ḫabar al-wāḥid: Ṣādr, Ḫumaynī and Ḫūɔī
Religion and Society in Qajar Iran
Religion and Society in Qajar Iran: An Introduction Part 1: Religion and the State in the Qajar Period 1. Political Ethic and Public Law in the Early Qajar Period 2. Jihad and the Religious Legitimacy of the Early Qajar State 3. From DAr al-SalOana-yi IOfahAn To DAr al-khilafa-yi OihrAn: Continuity and Change in the Safavid Model of State-Religious Administration during the Qajars (from 1795-1895 /1209-1313) 4. Religious and State Jurisdiction du…
Scripturalist Islam: The History and Doctrines of the Akhbārī Shīʿī School
The Akhbārī School dominated the intellectual landscape of Imāmī Shiʿism between the Seventeenth and early Nineteenth Centuries. Its principal doctrines involved a reliance on scripture (primarily the sayings or akhbār of the Shiʿite Imams) and a rejection of the rational exegetical techniques which had become orthodox doctrine in Imāmī theology and law. However, the Akhbārīs were not simple literalists, as they are at times portrayed in secondar…
Conceptions of Authority in Iraqi Shi'ism: Baqir al-Hakim, Ha’iri and Sistani on Ijtihad, Taqlid and Marja’iyya
One of the most obvious differences between recent Shi'ite and Sunni political activism is the dominance of clerical leadership in the former and lay leadership in the latter. This article examines the reasons for this difference, analysing the authority theories of three contemporary Iraqi Shi'ite clerics. Ayatallah Baqir al-Hakim, until his death in 2003, was the ideologue of the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq, the military wing…
The ‘Future’ of Islamic Studies: A Clutch of Conferences
Recent Research into the History of Early Shi'ism
This article examines some of the scholarship on early published in the last decade in English, French and German. Particular emphasis is paid to the emergence of the majority trend, its self‐definition and the development of doctrinal unity. Any social or political history of early will inevitably be partial as the division between these categories of analysis and the intellectual development of dogma and doctrine is somewhat artificial when con…
Personal piety
The collections of sayings and actions of the Prophet Muḥammad record his life in the minutest detail, including the Prophet's advice about the benefits of hair care: “The Prophet said: “Combing [one's hair] expels infectious diseases and moisturizing expels misery.” / The Prophet forbade brushing one's hair two times in a day. / The Prophet said, “Good hair is God's kiswa [the cloth covering of the Ka'ba in Mecca] - so treat it with respect.”” /…
Islamic Jurisprudence in the Classical Era
Norman Calder is still considered a luminary in the field of Islamic law. He was one among a handful of Western scholars who were beginning to engage with the subject. In the intervening years, much has changed, and Islamic law is now understood as fundamental to any engagement with the study of Islam, its history, and its society. In this book, Colin Imber has put together and edited four essays by Norman Calder that have never been previously p…
Dispensing Justice in Islam: Qadis and their Judgements * Edited by Muhammad KHALID Masud, RUDOLPH Peters and David S. Powers
Journal Article Dispensing Justice in Islam: Qadis and their JudgementsEdited by Muhammad Khalid Masud, Rudolph Peters and David S. Powers Get access Dispensing Justice in Islam: Qadis and their JudgementsEdited by Muhammad Khalid Masud, Rudolph Peters and David S. Powers (Leiden: Brill, 2006; Studies in Islamic Law and Society 22), xiv + 591 pp. Price HB €150.00. EAN 978–9004140677. Robert Gleave Robert Gleave University of Exeter Search for oth…
Islam and Literalism: Literal Meaning and Interpretation in Islamic Legal Theory
Traces the emergence and development of the idea of literal meaning in Islamic legal hermeneutics GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748689866','ISBN:9780748625703','ISBN:9780748631131','ISBN:9780748655540']); In this reading of Islamic legal hermeneutics, Robert Gleave explores various competing notions of literal meaning, linked to both theological doctrine and historical developments, together with insights from modern semantic and pragma…
Report of the Council
La eficacia legal de actos de taqiyya en la jurisprudencia imami: Al-Risāla fi l-taqiyya de ‛Alī al-Karakī
La šī‛a imāmí está estrechamente asociada a la doctrina del disimulo (taqiyya). En general, los juristas imāmíes permitieron a los creyentes actuar contraviniendo a la «verdadera» šarī‛a en circunstancias de taqiyya. Para estas transgresiones permitidas no había castigo, no se incurría en pecado ni repetición ni compensación con tal de que los actores legales guardaran unos límites estipulados. En el siglo X/XVI el famoso jurista ‛Alī al-Karakī i…
Report of the Council
Islamic Law in Theory: Studies on Jurisprudence in Honor of Bernard Weiss
The contributions of Bernard Weiss to the study of the principles of jurisprudence (uṣūl al-fiqh) are recognized in a series of contributions on Islamic legal theory. These thirteen chapters study a range of Islamic texts and employ contemporary legal, religious, and hermeneutical theory to study the methodology of Islamic law. Contributors include: Peter Sluglett, Ahmed El Shamsy, Éric Chaumont, A. Kevin Reinhart, Mohammad Fadel, Jonathan Brocko…
Report of the Council
Violence in Islamic Thought from the Qurʾan to the Mongols
Violence in Islamic Thought from the Qur'an to the Mongols
Violence in Islamic Thought from the Qur'an to the Mongols
The topic of Legitimate and Illegitimate Violence in Islamic Thought (LIVIT) calls for an interdisciplinary, comparative and historical approach. This has been the underlying methodological assumption within the project which bore this name. Amongst the products of that three-year project is a series of collected studies by established and emerging scholars in the field, examining how Muslim thinkers have conceptualised violence and categorised (…
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