Early Islamic Jurisprudence in Egypt

Two Scholars and Their Mukhtaṣars

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ID8970740
AuthorsJonathan E Brockopp (0000-0002-1326-2718, Bard College, corresponding author)
Year1998
Volume30
Issue2
Pages167-182
Publication date1998-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Journal Middle East Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0020-7438 • E-ISSN: 1471-6380
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0020743800065855
OpenAlexW2146918128
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited9

Recent scholarship on the manuscript libraries of North Africa has substantially increased the amount of literature available for analysis of the formative period in Islamic law, particularly for the nascent Malikite school. Students of Islamic law are now in a position, for instance, to begin a re-assessment of the 9th century, the vital transition period between the ancient schools of the 7th and 8th centuries, and the establishment of the classical schools in the 10th and 11th centuries.1 Not only will these new texts make the process of establishment of the classical schools clearer, they will also provide a much stronger basis for the study of earlier centuries, throwing into question the canonical status that has been granted to early legal texts by Western and traditional Muslim scholars alike

Classical period · Formative assessment · Islam · Jurisprudence · Pedagogy · Period (music · Political science · Scholarship · Sharia · Social science · Sociology · Archaeology and Historical Studies · Classics · Historical and Linguistic Studies · History · Islamic Studies and History · Law · Philosophy

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