The Historicization of Sharia and Historical Generalization

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ID21129579
AuthorsGuy Burak (corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume39
Issue2
Pages345-349
Publication date2019-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueComparative Studies of South Asia Africa and the Middle East (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1089-201X • E-ISSN: 1548-226X
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/1089201x-7586841
OpenAlexW2964608793
LanguageEN
References cited12

This review essay seeks to offer an analytic/historiographical framework that would pay closer attention to the imperial legal landscape and the Hanafi jurisprudential tradition. This framework, I believe, adds to the continuum that Beshara B. Doumani proposes, which is based on the political economy of different localities across the Ottoman Eastern Mediterranean and, perhaps, well beyond. Taken together, both aspects of the framework reveal the complexity of the Ottoman legal landscape. They also suggest new directions in which Family Life in the Ottoman Mediterranean could be generalized while retaining the rich local dimension of the work

Archaeology · Epistemology · Generalization · Geography · Historiography · Islam · Political science · Politics · Sharia · History · Islamic Studies and History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Mathematics · Philosophy · Turkey's Politics and Society

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