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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.

Islamic law --- Canonization. --- Rites and ceremonies --- Beatification --- Christian saints --- History. --- Arts and Humanities --- History

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The story of how Arab editors of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries revolutionized Islamic literatureIslamic book culture dates back to late antiquity, when Muslim scholars began to write down their doctrines on parchment, papyrus, and paper and then to compose increasingly elaborate analyses of, and commentaries on, these ideas. Movable type was adopted in the Middle East only in the early nineteenth century, and it wasn't until the second half of the century that the first works of classical Islamic religious scholarship were printed there. But from that moment on, Ahmed El Shamsy reveals, the technology of print transformed Islamic scholarship and Arabic literature.In the first wide-ranging account of the effects of print and the publishing industry on Islamic scholarship, El Shamsy tells the fascinating story of how a small group of editors and intellectuals brought forgotten works of Islamic literature into print and defined what became the classical canon of Islamic thought. Through the lens of the literary culture of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Arab cities—especially Cairo, a hot spot of the nascent publishing business—he explores the contributions of these individuals, who included some of the most important thinkers of the time. Through their efforts to find and publish classical literature, El Shamsy shows, many nearly lost works were recovered, disseminated, and harnessed for agendas of linguistic, ethical, and religious reform.Bringing to light the agents and events of the Islamic print revolution, Rediscovering the Islamic Classics is an absorbing examination of the central role printing and its advocates played in the intellectual history of the modern Arab world.

Publishers and publishing --- History. --- Abd al Hamid Nafi. --- Abduh. --- Ahmad. --- Ali Mubarak. --- Ami Ayalon. --- Arab Renaissance. --- Arabic print revolution. --- Arabic publishing. --- Arabo Islamic. --- Awakening. --- Egyptian Scholarly Society. --- Faris Shidyaq. --- Ibn Taymiyya. --- Iraq. --- Islamic studies. --- Islamism. --- Jamal al din al Qasimi. --- Levant. --- Mahmud Shukri al Alusi. --- Nahda. --- Orientalism. --- Rashid Rida. --- Rifa a al Tahtawi. --- Tahir al Jaza Iri. --- Taymur. --- Zaki. --- al Husayni. --- book history. --- canon. --- canonical. --- manuscript culture. --- modern Arab history. --- philology. --- premodern. --- publishing history. --- rediscovery. --- religious studies. --- textual criticism.

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The public/private distinction is fundamental to modern theories of the family, religion and religious freedom, and state power, yet it has had different salience, and been understood differently, from place to place and time to time. The volume brings together essays from an international array of experts in law and religion, in order to examine the public/private distinction in comparative perspective. The essays focus on the cultures and religions of the ancient Mediterranean, in the formative periods of Greece and Rome and the religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Particular attention is given to the private exercise of religion, the relation between public norms and private life, and the division between public and private space and the place of religion therein.

Law, Greek --- Law, Greek. --- Privacy, Right of (Jewish law) --- Privacy, Right of (Jewish law). --- Privacy, Right of --- Privacy, Right of. --- Public law (Greek law) --- Public law (Greek law). --- Public law (Roman law) --- Public law (Roman law). --- Recht. --- Religion and law --- Religion and law. --- Religion. --- Roman law --- Roman law. --- History. --- Droit à la vie privée --- Droit romain --- Droit public (Droit romain) --- Droit public (Droit grec) --- Droit grec --- Droit à la vie privée (Droit juif) --- Religion et droit --- Histoire --- 291 --- Law --- Law and religion --- Jewish law --- Greek law --- Law, Ancient --- Public law --- Invasion of privacy --- Right of privacy --- Civil rights --- Libel and slander --- Personality (Law) --- Press law --- Computer crimes --- Confidential communications --- Data protection --- Right to be forgotten --- Secrecy --- Godsdienstwetenschap: vergelijkend --- Religious aspects --- Law and legislation --- History --- Ancient Christianity. --- Ancient Judaism. --- Islam. --- private. --- public.