N Hurvitz
Biographic Data
| ID | 4744 |
|---|---|
| NAME | N Hurvitz |
| GIVEN NAMES | N |
| FAMILY NAME | Hurvitz |
| SIGNATURE | HURVITZ N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9751-6147 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1958 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Law, Theology and Morality in Ḥanbalī Thought and Action
The Ḥanbalīs, one of the four schools of Islamic law ( madhāhib ), are exceptional in that they are also an activist community whose members invest tremendous efforts to eradicate what they perceive to be wrong beliefs and moral corruption. In this essay I will inquire about the feature that set the Ḥanbalīs apart from other schools of law: activism. I begin with a brief description of their behavior and how they confronted alleged wrongdoers, an…
Theology, Law and Social Configuration
As Muslim societies split into different theological trends, proto-Sunnīs and later Sunnīs, asked themselves how they should interact with individuals who strayed from their system of beliefs. One
Changing Islam, changing the world
How do political Islamists, movements and thinkers view political change? To what extent do they promote violence as a means of bringing about change? Are they themselves willing to change and adapt to modern political systems? There is a wide array of movements in the Muslim world that grapple with these questions and as a consequence, numerous answers and disagreements. This paper will focus on three cardinal and contested issues: Is violence a…
State and Religion in the Formative Stage of Islam (7th–11th Centuries C.E.)
Questions related to state and religion, in the formative centuries of Islam, are often viewed through the “opposition paradigm,” which asserts that the relations between the rulers and the scholars were primarily a protracted struggle over religious authority. However, recent studies point to a more collaborative relationship between these two pillars of Muslim societies. This essay brings together the assessments of several studies that undermi…
The Contribution of Early Islamic Rulers to Adjudication and Legislation
Law and Empire relates the principles of legal thinking in Chinese, Islamic, and European contexts to practices of lawmaking and adjudication. It shows how legal procedure and legal thinking could be used in strikingly different ways.
From Scholarly Circles to Mass Movements
The Formation of Hanbalism
Ahmad Ibn Hanbal (d. 855) was the eponymous founder of a school of law, and an influential intellectual who led the Baghdadi masses during the Inquisition. Owing to his status as a jurist, to the religious ideas he propounded and to his model way of life, he is perceived as one of the pivotal figures in the history of Islam and a revered hero to th
Who is the accused? The interrogation of Aḥmad Ibn Ḥanbal
La Miḥna (218-234 H) fue un acontecimiento definitorio de la autoridad espiritual islámica. Su importancia fue evidente para sus contemporáneos, tanto los inquisidores como sus víctimas, y ambos lados recogieron los acontecimientos producidos. Este artículo compara estas narraciones. Se concentra en tres elementos que aparecen en ambos relatos: cómo cada lado contó la historia a un público amplio; cómo percibieron la tortura de Ibn Ḥanbal; cómo d…
Mihna as Self-Defense
L'A. donne une nouvelle interpretation de la periode de la Mihna (inquisition) (IXe siecle). On a longtemps pense, a la lecture de textes sunnites ou hanbalistes, que cette inquisition avait ete declenchee par un seul homme, le calife al-Ma'mūn. Se basant sur d'autres documents, l'A. montre que cette inquisition a ete vecue par le mouvement rationaliste des partisans du kalâm comme une reaction d'auto-defense face a la tendance du parti proto-sun…
Introduction
Professional jurists are often inquisitive about the subject matter of their calling and in the course of their careers may well develop fascinating insights into the law and those who interpret it. Their employers, however, be they governments, corporations, firms, or private clients, rarely show similar enthusiasm for such insights unless the hours spent pondering the social or historical significance of this or that legal view have a contempor…
Schools Of Law And Historical Context
Scholarly investigations of the formative stages of the madhāhib (schools of law) have generated several interpretations but few substantive studies. One of the underlying assumptions of madhhab scholarship is that personal schools grew out of regional schools. In this essay, I (1) challenge the notion of regional schools, suggesting that greater attention should be paid to circles of masters and their disciples; (2) survey the scholarship that h…
Biographies and Mild Asceticism
L'ascetisme tempere est un bouquet de sensibilites morales dont le trait commun est la tension entre le gout du monde et le retrait du monde. Il s'agit de l'une des expressions de l'imagination morale islamique. Cependant, meme lorsqu'il constituait le courant ethique central, il variait beaucoup dans ses manifestations et dans les attitudes qu'il inspirait. Les musulmans pieux furent les pierres angulaires des traditions morales islamiques; les …
Muhibb ad‐Din al‐Khatib's semitic wave theory and Pan‐Arabism
Sources of Middle-Class Values of American Jews
Journal Article Sources of Middle-Class Values of American Jews Get access Nathan Hurvitz Nathan Hurvitz University of Southern California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 37, Issue 2, December 1958, Pages 117–123, https://doi.org/10.2307/2572793 Published: 01 December 1958
Muhibb ad‐Din al‐Khatib's semitic wave theory and Pan‐Arabism
Schools Of Law And Historical Context
Scholarly investigations of the formative stages of the madhāhib (schools of law) have generated several interpretations but few substantive studies. One of the underlying assumptions of madhhab scholarship is that personal schools grew out of regional schools. In this essay, I (1) challenge the notion of regional schools, suggesting that greater attention should be paid to circles of masters and their disciples; (2) survey the scholarship that h…
Biographies and Mild Asceticism
L'ascetisme tempere est un bouquet de sensibilites morales dont le trait commun est la tension entre le gout du monde et le retrait du monde. Il s'agit de l'une des expressions de l'imagination morale islamique. Cependant, meme lorsqu'il constituait le courant ethique central, il variait beaucoup dans ses manifestations et dans les attitudes qu'il inspirait. Les musulmans pieux furent les pierres angulaires des traditions morales islamiques; les …
Mihna as Self-Defense
L'A. donne une nouvelle interpretation de la periode de la Mihna (inquisition) (IXe siecle). On a longtemps pense, a la lecture de textes sunnites ou hanbalistes, que cette inquisition avait ete declenchee par un seul homme, le calife al-Ma'mūn. Se basant sur d'autres documents, l'A. montre que cette inquisition a ete vecue par le mouvement rationaliste des partisans du kalâm comme une reaction d'auto-defense face a la tendance du parti proto-sun…
Sources of Middle-Class Values of American Jews
Journal Article Sources of Middle-Class Values of American Jews Get access Nathan Hurvitz Nathan Hurvitz University of Southern California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 37, Issue 2, December 1958, Pages 117–123, https://doi.org/10.2307/2572793 Published: 01 December 1958
Muhibb ad‐Din al‐Khatib's semitic wave theory and Pan‐Arabism
Biographies and Mild Asceticism
L'ascetisme tempere est un bouquet de sensibilites morales dont le trait commun est la tension entre le gout du monde et le retrait du monde. Il s'agit de l'une des expressions de l'imagination morale islamique. Cependant, meme lorsqu'il constituait le courant ethique central, il variait beaucoup dans ses manifestations et dans les attitudes qu'il inspirait. Les musulmans pieux furent les pierres angulaires des traditions morales islamiques; les …
Schools Of Law And Historical Context
Scholarly investigations of the formative stages of the madhāhib (schools of law) have generated several interpretations but few substantive studies. One of the underlying assumptions of madhhab scholarship is that personal schools grew out of regional schools. In this essay, I (1) challenge the notion of regional schools, suggesting that greater attention should be paid to circles of masters and their disciples; (2) survey the scholarship that h…
Who is the accused? The interrogation of Aḥmad Ibn Ḥanbal
La Miḥna (218-234 H) fue un acontecimiento definitorio de la autoridad espiritual islámica. Su importancia fue evidente para sus contemporáneos, tanto los inquisidores como sus víctimas, y ambos lados recogieron los acontecimientos producidos. Este artículo compara estas narraciones. Se concentra en tres elementos que aparecen en ambos relatos: cómo cada lado contó la historia a un público amplio; cómo percibieron la tortura de Ibn Ḥanbal; cómo d…
Mihna as Self-Defense
L'A. donne une nouvelle interpretation de la periode de la Mihna (inquisition) (IXe siecle). On a longtemps pense, a la lecture de textes sunnites ou hanbalistes, que cette inquisition avait ete declenchee par un seul homme, le calife al-Ma'mūn. Se basant sur d'autres documents, l'A. montre que cette inquisition a ete vecue par le mouvement rationaliste des partisans du kalâm comme une reaction d'auto-defense face a la tendance du parti proto-sun…
Introduction
Professional jurists are often inquisitive about the subject matter of their calling and in the course of their careers may well develop fascinating insights into the law and those who interpret it. Their employers, however, be they governments, corporations, firms, or private clients, rarely show similar enthusiasm for such insights unless the hours spent pondering the social or historical significance of this or that legal view have a contempor…
The Formation of Hanbalism
Ahmad Ibn Hanbal (d. 855) was the eponymous founder of a school of law, and an influential intellectual who led the Baghdadi masses during the Inquisition. Owing to his status as a jurist, to the religious ideas he propounded and to his model way of life, he is perceived as one of the pivotal figures in the history of Islam and a revered hero to th
From Scholarly Circles to Mass Movements
The Contribution of Early Islamic Rulers to Adjudication and Legislation
Law and Empire relates the principles of legal thinking in Chinese, Islamic, and European contexts to practices of lawmaking and adjudication. It shows how legal procedure and legal thinking could be used in strikingly different ways.
State and Religion in the Formative Stage of Islam (7th–11th Centuries C.E.)
Questions related to state and religion, in the formative centuries of Islam, are often viewed through the “opposition paradigm,” which asserts that the relations between the rulers and the scholars were primarily a protracted struggle over religious authority. However, recent studies point to a more collaborative relationship between these two pillars of Muslim societies. This essay brings together the assessments of several studies that undermi…
Changing Islam, changing the world
How do political Islamists, movements and thinkers view political change? To what extent do they promote violence as a means of bringing about change? Are they themselves willing to change and adapt to modern political systems? There is a wide array of movements in the Muslim world that grapple with these questions and as a consequence, numerous answers and disagreements. This paper will focus on three cardinal and contested issues: Is violence a…
Theology, Law and Social Configuration
As Muslim societies split into different theological trends, proto-Sunnīs and later Sunnīs, asked themselves how they should interact with individuals who strayed from their system of beliefs. One
Law, Theology and Morality in Ḥanbalī Thought and Action
The Ḥanbalīs, one of the four schools of Islamic law ( madhāhib ), are exceptional in that they are also an activist community whose members invest tremendous efforts to eradicate what they perceive to be wrong beliefs and moral corruption. In this essay I will inquire about the feature that set the Ḥanbalīs apart from other schools of law: activism. I begin with a brief description of their behavior and how they confronted alleged wrongdoers, an…
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