Rudolph Peters
Biographic Data
| ID | 3698857 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rudolph Peters |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rudolph |
| FAMILY NAME | Peters |
| SIGNATURE | PETERS R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Amsterdam |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Paradise or Hell? The Religious Doctrine of Election in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Islamic Fundamentalism and Protestant Calvinism
This chapter focuses on Max Weber’s thesis concerning the relationship between Calvinist Protestantism and the development of capitalism and describes fundamentalist thought and contrast it with mainstream Islam in order to construct an ideal type of fundamentalist doctrine. It discusses the criticism of Weber’s idealistic view but pointing out that a certain tradition in Islam—namely Sunnite fundamentalism of the eighteenth and nineteenth centur…
Qāḍīs and their Courts: An Historical Survey
Crime and Punishment in Islamic Law: Theory and Practice from the Sixteenth to the Twenty-First Century
Rudolph Peters' book, first published in 2006, is about crimes and their punishments as laid down in Islamic law. In recent years some of the more fundamentalist regimes, such as those of Iran, Pakistan, Sudan and the northern states of Nigeria have reintroduced Islamic law in place of western criminal codes. Peters gives a detailed account of the classical doctrine and traces the enforcement of criminal law from the Ottoman period to the present…
Dispensing Justice in Islam: Qadis and their Judgements
Dispensing Justice is designed to serve as a sourcebook of Islamic legal practice and qadi court records from the rise of Islam to modern times, drawing upon court records and qadi judgments, in addition to literary sources. In the first chapter, we survey the state of the field, sketching the history, structure, and modern transformation of the qadiship. The twenty chapters that follow are grouped thematically in four sections: (1) the nature an…
From Jurists’ Law to Statute Law or What Happens When the Shari'a is Codified
Murder in Khaybar: Some Thoughts on the Origins of the Qasāma Procedure in Islamic Law
The institution of qasāma has intrigued both Muslim jurists and western scholars. The first were puzzled by its violation of essential legal principles, the latter by its apparent pre-Islamic origins. Because of its archaic and irrational character, western scholars assume that the institution was not applied in practice: "[I]t does not appear that this institution functioned much, even in the past, when the penal law of Islam had a certain pract…
The Legal History of Ottoman Egypt
State, Law and Society in Nineteenth-Century Egypt
state, law and society 267 © Koninklijke Brill BV, Leiden, 1999 Die Welt des Islams 39, 3 STATE, LAW AND SOCIETY IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY EGYPT INTRODUCTION BY RUDOLPH PETERS (Guest editor) Amsterdam During the nineteenth century the relationship between the Egyptian state and the people drastically changed. This change is commonly labelled as modernisation and seen as a direct result of the adoption of Western notions and ideas by Egyptian reformer…
Administrators and Magistrates: The Development of a Secular Judiciary in Egypt, 1842-1871
The infatuated Greek: Social and Legal Boundaries in Nineteenth-century Egypt
Society is made up of a multitude of social groups sharing common characteristics such as level of wealth, origin, age and gender. Some of these groups may have a special legal status, assigning to their members special rights and obligations. In this case the law gives a precise definition of the group and draws a clear cut boundary between this and the other groups. Nowadays, under the influence of the doctrine of equality before the law, the n…
Islamic and Secular Criminal Law in Nineteenth Century Egypt: The Role and Function of the Qadi
Until the introduction of French law in 1883, Egyptian criminal law during the nineteenth century had been governed by both statute law and Islamic law. The criminal codes were enforced by administrative and judicial bodies called majālis or councils; Islamic law was applied by the qadi. In this article, I define the qadi's competence in criminal matters and analyze his role and function as revealed in the texts of the criminal codes and nineteen…
A Bibliography of Islamic Law, 1980-1993
Muhammad Al-'Abbāsī Al-Mahdi (D. 1897), Grand Mufti of Egypt, and His Al-Fatāwā Al-Mahdiyya
An analysis of fatwas issued by the Grand Mufti of Egypt, Muhammad al'Abbāsī al-Mahdī (d. 1897), and of related legal texts, indicates that during the second half of the nineteenth century, the Grand Mufti played an increasingly important role in ensuring the correct and uniform application of Hanafi law, thereby preventing him from serving as an agent of legal change
"Muḥammad al-ʿAbbāsī al-Mahdī (D. 1897), Grand Muftī of Egypt, and His "al-Fatāwā al-Mahdiyya
Norman Calder, Studies in Early Muslim Jurisprudence (Oxford: (Oxford University Press, 1993). Pp. 267
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Westliche Islamwissenschaft im Spiegel muslimischer Kritik: Grundzuge und Merkmale einer innerislamischen Diskussion
The Islamization of Criminal Law: A Comparative Analysis
THE ISLAMIZATION OF CRIMINAL LAW: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS BY RUDOLPH PETERS Amsterdam With the exception of a few states on the Arabian Peninsula, the legal systems prevailing in the Islamic world are almost entirely based on Western law. Western codes were adopted during the second half of the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries. Only the law concerning personal status, succession and religious foundations is rooted in Islamic law, the Shari"a…
The Islamic Law on Land Tax and Rent. The Peasants' Loss of Property Rights as Interpreted in the Hanafite Legal Literature of the Mamluk and Ottoman Periods
Murder On the Nile
Baer's studies on 19th century Ottoman and Egyptian statute law in criminal matters give us some insight in the scope and content of criminal legislation in this period.However, Baer approached the subject from a basically political angle and did hardly pay attention to the question of what laws were actually applied in the
Murder on the Nile: Homicide Trials in 19th Century Egyptian Sharia Courts
Reinhard Schulze's Quest for an Islamic Enlightenment
REINHARD SCHULZE'S QUEST FOR AN ISLAMIC ENLIGHTENMENT BY RUDOLPH PETERS Amsterdam During the last two decades the 18th century has almost become a fashionable topic of research among historians of the Islamic world. Till then this era was regarded either as a decrepit extension to the flourishing of Islamic civilization, studied only to give the heyday of Islam more relief, or as the background to 'moderniza- tion', studied in order to provide a …
Divine Law or Man-Made Law? Egypt and the Application of the Shari'a
DIVINE LAW OR MAN-MADE LAW? EGYPT AND THE APPLICATION OF THE SHARI'A Rudolph Peters* INTRODUCTION The application of the Shari'a has been a central issue in Egyptian politics since the beginning of the seventies. Originally advocated only by Islamic opposition groups, it gained such popularity as a political slogan that the Government could not remain pas- sive. As of 1976 there was feverish and largely government-promoted legislative activity wi…
Religious Attitudes towards Modernization in the Ottoman Empire. A Nineteenth Century Pious Text on Steamships, Factories and the Telegraph
Rudolph Peters, Religious Attitudes towards Modernization in the Ottoman Empire. A Nineteenth Century Pious Text on Steamships, Factories and the Telegraph, Die Welt des Islams, New Series, Bd. 26, Nr. 1/4 (1986), pp. 76-105
Religious Attitudes Towards Modernization in the Ottoman Empire
Cultural change and health: The case of South American rainforest Indians
Apostasy in Islam
In the first centuries of Islam, the Islamic legal scholars elaborated a complex set of rules pertaining to the legal status of those Moslems, who gave up their religion, the apostates.These rules belong to the sphere of penal as well as civil law.'This doctrine remained valid until, in the latter half of the 19th century, punishment for apostasy fell into desuetude, though it was almost nowhere expressly abolished.At the same time the principle …
Islamic and Secular Criminal Law in Nineteenth Century Egypt: The Role and Function of the Qadi
Until the introduction of French law in 1883, Egyptian criminal law during the nineteenth century had been governed by both statute law and Islamic law. The criminal codes were enforced by administrative and judicial bodies called majālis or councils; Islamic law was applied by the qadi. In this article, I define the qadi's competence in criminal matters and analyze his role and function as revealed in the texts of the criminal codes and nineteen…
From Jurists’ Law to Statute Law or What Happens When the Shari'a is Codified
Idjtihād and Taqlid in 18Th and 19Th Century Islam
Islamic reformism as it came into existence by the end of the 19th century was a response to the challenge of the increasing Western impact in the Islamic world.The way this reformism expressed itself was, however, to a large extent conditioned by tradition.All kinds of issues that became particularly associated with it had already been part and parcel of the Islamic heritage and subject of fierce debates.One of these issues-a crucial one in pres…
Cultural change and health: The case of South American rainforest Indians
Administrators and Magistrates: The Development of a Secular Judiciary in Egypt, 1842-1871
The Islamization of Criminal Law: A Comparative Analysis
THE ISLAMIZATION OF CRIMINAL LAW: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS BY RUDOLPH PETERS Amsterdam With the exception of a few states on the Arabian Peninsula, the legal systems prevailing in the Islamic world are almost entirely based on Western law. Western codes were adopted during the second half of the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries. Only the law concerning personal status, succession and religious foundations is rooted in Islamic law, the Shari"a…
Murder in Khaybar: Some Thoughts on the Origins of the Qasāma Procedure in Islamic Law
The institution of qasāma has intrigued both Muslim jurists and western scholars. The first were puzzled by its violation of essential legal principles, the latter by its apparent pre-Islamic origins. Because of its archaic and irrational character, western scholars assume that the institution was not applied in practice: "[I]t does not appear that this institution functioned much, even in the past, when the penal law of Islam had a certain pract…
Reinhard Schulze's Quest for an Islamic Enlightenment
REINHARD SCHULZE'S QUEST FOR AN ISLAMIC ENLIGHTENMENT BY RUDOLPH PETERS Amsterdam During the last two decades the 18th century has almost become a fashionable topic of research among historians of the Islamic world. Till then this era was regarded either as a decrepit extension to the flourishing of Islamic civilization, studied only to give the heyday of Islam more relief, or as the background to 'moderniza- tion', studied in order to provide a …
Religious Attitudes towards Modernization in the Ottoman Empire. A Nineteenth Century Pious Text on Steamships, Factories and the Telegraph
Rudolph Peters, Religious Attitudes towards Modernization in the Ottoman Empire. A Nineteenth Century Pious Text on Steamships, Factories and the Telegraph, Die Welt des Islams, New Series, Bd. 26, Nr. 1/4 (1986), pp. 76-105
Religious Attitudes Towards Modernization in the Ottoman Empire
Apostasy in Islam
In the first centuries of Islam, the Islamic legal scholars elaborated a complex set of rules pertaining to the legal status of those Moslems, who gave up their religion, the apostates.These rules belong to the sphere of penal as well as civil law.'This doctrine remained valid until, in the latter half of the 19th century, punishment for apostasy fell into desuetude, though it was almost nowhere expressly abolished.At the same time the principle …
Jihad in Mediaeval and Modern Islam. The Chapter on Jihad from Averroes' Legal Handbook 'Bidayat al-Mudjtahid' and the Treatise 'Koran and Fighting
Islam and Colonialism: The Doctrine of Jihad in Modern History
The series Religion and Society (RS) contributes to the exploration of religions as social systems both in Western and non-Western societies; in particular, it examines religions in their differentiation from, and intersection with, other cultural systems, such as art, economy, law and politics. Due attention is given to paradigmatic case or comparative studies that exhibit a clear theoretical orientation with the empirical and historical data of…
Idjtihād and Taqlid in 18Th and 19Th Century Islam
Islamic reformism as it came into existence by the end of the 19th century was a response to the challenge of the increasing Western impact in the Islamic world.The way this reformism expressed itself was, however, to a large extent conditioned by tradition.All kinds of issues that became particularly associated with it had already been part and parcel of the Islamic heritage and subject of fierce debates.One of these issues-a crucial one in pres…
Islam and Colonialism. The Doctrine of Jihad in Modern History
Islam and Colonialism. The Doctrine of Jihad in Modern History
The Challenge of the Middle East
Studies on Islam
Jihad in Mediaeval and Modern Islam: The Chapter on Jihad from Averroes' Legal Handbook 'Bidāyat al-Mudjtahid' and the Treatise 'Koran and Fighting' by the Late Shaykh al-Azhar, Maḥmūd Shaltūt
Challenging Colonialism: Bank Misr and Egyptian Industrialization, 1920-1941
Cultural change and health: The case of South American rainforest Indians
Religious Attitudes towards Modernization in the Ottoman Empire. A Nineteenth Century Pious Text on Steamships, Factories and the Telegraph
Rudolph Peters, Religious Attitudes towards Modernization in the Ottoman Empire. A Nineteenth Century Pious Text on Steamships, Factories and the Telegraph, Die Welt des Islams, New Series, Bd. 26, Nr. 1/4 (1986), pp. 76-105
Religious Attitudes Towards Modernization in the Ottoman Empire
Divine Law or Man-Made Law? Egypt and the Application of the Shari'a
DIVINE LAW OR MAN-MADE LAW? EGYPT AND THE APPLICATION OF THE SHARI'A Rudolph Peters* INTRODUCTION The application of the Shari'a has been a central issue in Egyptian politics since the beginning of the seventies. Originally advocated only by Islamic opposition groups, it gained such popularity as a political slogan that the Government could not remain pas- sive. As of 1976 there was feverish and largely government-promoted legislative activity wi…
The Islamic Law on Land Tax and Rent. The Peasants' Loss of Property Rights as Interpreted in the Hanafite Legal Literature of the Mamluk and Ottoman Periods
Murder On the Nile
Baer's studies on 19th century Ottoman and Egyptian statute law in criminal matters give us some insight in the scope and content of criminal legislation in this period.However, Baer approached the subject from a basically political angle and did hardly pay attention to the question of what laws were actually applied in the
Murder on the Nile: Homicide Trials in 19th Century Egyptian Sharia Courts
Reinhard Schulze's Quest for an Islamic Enlightenment
REINHARD SCHULZE'S QUEST FOR AN ISLAMIC ENLIGHTENMENT BY RUDOLPH PETERS Amsterdam During the last two decades the 18th century has almost become a fashionable topic of research among historians of the Islamic world. Till then this era was regarded either as a decrepit extension to the flourishing of Islamic civilization, studied only to give the heyday of Islam more relief, or as the background to 'moderniza- tion', studied in order to provide a …
Muhammad Al-'Abbāsī Al-Mahdi (D. 1897), Grand Mufti of Egypt, and His Al-Fatāwā Al-Mahdiyya
An analysis of fatwas issued by the Grand Mufti of Egypt, Muhammad al'Abbāsī al-Mahdī (d. 1897), and of related legal texts, indicates that during the second half of the nineteenth century, the Grand Mufti played an increasingly important role in ensuring the correct and uniform application of Hanafi law, thereby preventing him from serving as an agent of legal change
"Muḥammad al-ʿAbbāsī al-Mahdī (D. 1897), Grand Muftī of Egypt, and His "al-Fatāwā al-Mahdiyya
Norman Calder, Studies in Early Muslim Jurisprudence (Oxford: (Oxford University Press, 1993). Pp. 267
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Westliche Islamwissenschaft im Spiegel muslimischer Kritik: Grundzuge und Merkmale einer innerislamischen Diskussion
The Islamization of Criminal Law: A Comparative Analysis
THE ISLAMIZATION OF CRIMINAL LAW: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS BY RUDOLPH PETERS Amsterdam With the exception of a few states on the Arabian Peninsula, the legal systems prevailing in the Islamic world are almost entirely based on Western law. Western codes were adopted during the second half of the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries. Only the law concerning personal status, succession and religious foundations is rooted in Islamic law, the Shari"a…
Islamic and Secular Criminal Law in Nineteenth Century Egypt: The Role and Function of the Qadi
Until the introduction of French law in 1883, Egyptian criminal law during the nineteenth century had been governed by both statute law and Islamic law. The criminal codes were enforced by administrative and judicial bodies called majālis or councils; Islamic law was applied by the qadi. In this article, I define the qadi's competence in criminal matters and analyze his role and function as revealed in the texts of the criminal codes and nineteen…
A Bibliography of Islamic Law, 1980-1993
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