Joseph E Lowry
Biographic Data
| ID | 706576 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joseph E Lowry |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joseph E |
| FAMILY NAME | Lowry |
| SIGNATURE | LOWRY J E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pennsylvania |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9793-1519 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Quranic Law and Its ‘Biblical’ Intertexts
This article examines intertextual relationships between quranic and biblical law. It focuses primarily on three instances (fasting, torts, and dietary regulations) in which the Quran grounds its substantive legislation through references to biblical law. The Quran’s invocations of the Bible, even if those invocations mark intertexts that implicate texts of biblical literature more broadly, represent a quranic strategy of self-positioning and the…
Nevin Reda, The al-Baqara Crescendo
Arabic Belles Lettres
Arabic Belles Lettres
Arabic Belles Lettres brings together ten studies that shed light on important questions in the study of Arabic language, literature, literary history, and writerly culture. The volume is divided into three sections. Early Narratives comprises: Joseph Lowry on the Qur'an’s allusive legal language; Abed el-Rahman Tayyara on matrilineal lineages in the context of Badr and Uhud; Ruqayya Khan on the ramifications of public courtship in 'Udhrī romance…
Arabic Belles-Lettres
Narratives of Islamic Legal Theory. By Rumee Ahmed
The Prophet as lawgiver and legal authority
Among Muḥammad's many sobriquets is that of lawgiver, al-shāri'. Although the term is ambiguous and can also refer to God, Muḥammad is deemed worthy of this epithet because of his role in transmitting the two revelatory textual sources that form the basis of Islamic law: Qur'ān and Ḥadītḥ The Qur'ān is the word of God but transmitted through Muḥammad's experience of revelation and first uttered by Muḥammad. Muḥammad is, thus, the immediate, thoug…
Risky Business
Yahyā Haqqī’s short story “Antar and Juliet” depicts a tragic encounter between two characters from different social worlds. Although the story could be read as a depiction of the stark reality of class difference, this article explores the characters’ varying degrees of willingness to expose themselves to risk. Using ideas about tragedy and ethics developed by Martha Nussbaum, it is argued that the story portrays the good life as one constituted…
Early Islamic Legal Theory
The Risāla of al-Shāfiʿī (d. 204/820), the earliest preserved work of Islamic legal theory, has been understood in previous scholarship as either the elaboration of a hierarchy of sources of law (Qurʾān, Sunna, consensus, and analogical reasoning) or an extended defense of the Sunna. Through a careful rereading of this celebrated text, this book offers a comprehensive reinterpretation of the Risāla, in which Shāfiʿī formulated an all-encompassing…
When Less is More
In this article I argue that the passage at Q. 6:136–53 exhibits a minimalist attitude towards law. This passage offers extensive criticisms of norms, rites and practices that are in force in another community (or communities), and then concludes with a list of commandments that are portrayed as a simpler alternative to the matters described and denounced in the preceding ayas. The ‘minimalist attitude’ towards law in this passage expresses itsel…
Die Rechtsbucher des Qairawaners Sahnun B. Said
Does Shāfiʿī have a Theory of Four Sources of Law?
Interpreting the Self
Autobiography is a literary genre which Western scholarship has ascribed mostly to Europe and the West. Countering this assessment and presenting many little-known texts, this comprehensive work demonstrates the existence of a flourishing tradition in Arabic autobiography. Interpreting the Self discusses nearly one hundred Arabic autobiographical texts and presents thirteen selections in translation. The authors of these autobiographies represent…
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Interpreting the Self
Autobiography is a literary genre which Western scholarship has ascribed mostly to Europe and the West. Countering this assessment and presenting many little-known texts, this comprehensive work demonstrates the existence of a flourishing tradition in Arabic autobiography. Interpreting the Self discusses nearly one hundred Arabic autobiographical texts and presents thirteen selections in translation. The authors of these autobiographies represent…
Does Shāfiʿī have a Theory of Four Sources of Law?
Die Rechtsbucher des Qairawaners Sahnun B. Said
Early Islamic Legal Theory
The Risāla of al-Shāfiʿī (d. 204/820), the earliest preserved work of Islamic legal theory, has been understood in previous scholarship as either the elaboration of a hierarchy of sources of law (Qurʾān, Sunna, consensus, and analogical reasoning) or an extended defense of the Sunna. Through a careful rereading of this celebrated text, this book offers a comprehensive reinterpretation of the Risāla, in which Shāfiʿī formulated an all-encompassing…
When Less is More
In this article I argue that the passage at Q. 6:136–53 exhibits a minimalist attitude towards law. This passage offers extensive criticisms of norms, rites and practices that are in force in another community (or communities), and then concludes with a list of commandments that are portrayed as a simpler alternative to the matters described and denounced in the preceding ayas. The ‘minimalist attitude’ towards law in this passage expresses itsel…
The Prophet as lawgiver and legal authority
Among Muḥammad's many sobriquets is that of lawgiver, al-shāri'. Although the term is ambiguous and can also refer to God, Muḥammad is deemed worthy of this epithet because of his role in transmitting the two revelatory textual sources that form the basis of Islamic law: Qur'ān and Ḥadītḥ The Qur'ān is the word of God but transmitted through Muḥammad's experience of revelation and first uttered by Muḥammad. Muḥammad is, thus, the immediate, thoug…
Risky Business
Yahyā Haqqī’s short story “Antar and Juliet” depicts a tragic encounter between two characters from different social worlds. Although the story could be read as a depiction of the stark reality of class difference, this article explores the characters’ varying degrees of willingness to expose themselves to risk. Using ideas about tragedy and ethics developed by Martha Nussbaum, it is argued that the story portrays the good life as one constituted…
Narratives of Islamic Legal Theory. By Rumee Ahmed
Arabic Belles Lettres
Arabic Belles Lettres
Arabic Belles Lettres brings together ten studies that shed light on important questions in the study of Arabic language, literature, literary history, and writerly culture. The volume is divided into three sections. Early Narratives comprises: Joseph Lowry on the Qur'an’s allusive legal language; Abed el-Rahman Tayyara on matrilineal lineages in the context of Badr and Uhud; Ruqayya Khan on the ramifications of public courtship in 'Udhrī romance…
Arabic Belles-Lettres
Nevin Reda, The al-Baqara Crescendo
Quranic Law and Its ‘Biblical’ Intertexts
This article examines intertextual relationships between quranic and biblical law. It focuses primarily on three instances (fasting, torts, and dietary regulations) in which the Quran grounds its substantive legislation through references to biblical law. The Quran’s invocations of the Bible, even if those invocations mark intertexts that implicate texts of biblical literature more broadly, represent a quranic strategy of self-positioning and the…
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