TY - BOOK ID - 85297522 TI - The canonization of Islamic law PY - 2013 SN - 1139893351 1107425441 1107423252 1107420148 1107546079 1107421519 113964971X 110741752X 1107418828 1107041481 1306072123 9781107417526 9781139649711 9781107546073 9781107041486 PB - Cambridge DB - UniCat KW - Islamic law KW - Canonization. KW - Rites and ceremonies KW - Beatification KW - Christian saints KW - History. KW - Arts and Humanities KW - History UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85297522 AB - The Canonization of Islamic Law tells the story of the birth of classical Islamic law in the eighth and ninth centuries CE. It shows how an oral normative tradition embedded in communal practice was transformed into a systematic legal science defined by hermeneutic analysis of a clearly demarcated scriptural canon. This transformation was inaugurated by the innovative legal theory of Muhammad b. Idrīs al-Shāfi'ī (d. 820 CE), and it took place against the background of a crisis of identity and religious authority in ninth-century Egypt. By tracing the formulation, reception, interpretation and spread of al-Shāfi'ī's ideas, the author demonstrates how the canonization of scripture that lay at the heart of al-Shāfi'ī's theory formed the basis for the emergence of legal hermeneutics, the formation of the Sunni schools of law, and the creation of a shared methodological basis in Muslim thought. ER -