Volume 1 Philosophy and Jurisprudence in the Islamic World

Published by De Gruyter 2019

Volume 1 Philosophy and Jurisprudence in the Islamic World

Edited by: Peter Adamson

Part of the multi-volume work Philosophy in the Islamic World in Context

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110552386

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This book brings together the study of two great disciplines of the Islamic world: law and philosophy. In both sunni and shiite Islam, it became the norm for scholars to acquire a high level of expertise in the legal tradition. Thus some of the greatest names in the history of Aristotelianism were trained jurists, like Averroes, or commented on the status and nature of law, like al-Fārābī. While such authors sought to put law in its place relative to the philosophical disciplines, others criticized philosophy from a legal viewpoint, like al-Ghazālī and Ibn Taymiyya.

But this collection of papers does not only explore the relative standing of law and philosophy. It also looks at how philosophers, theologians, and jurists answered philosophical questions that arise from jurisprudence itself. What is the logical structure of a well-formed legal argument? What standard of certainty needs to be attained in passing down judgments, and how is that standard reached? What are the sources of valid legal judgment and what makes these sources authoritative? May a believer be excused on grounds of ignorance?

Together the contributions provide an unprecedented demonstration of the close connections between philosophy and law in Islamic society, while also highlighting the philosophical interest of texts normally studied only by legal historians.

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Peter Adamson, LMU Munich, Germany.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Philosophical Reflections in the Poetry of al-Shāfiʿī Georges Tamer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Ethics and Fiqh in al-Fārābī’s Philosophy Feriel Bouhafa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
Ibn Sīnā’s Moral Ontology and Theory of Law Hannah C. Erlwein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
In the Footsteps of Ibn Sīnā? The Uṣūlī Debate on the Argumentum e Contrario Nora Kalbarczyk Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
Al-Ghazālī on Philosophy and Jurisprudence Ulrich Rudolph Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
Syllogistic Logic in Islamic Legal Theory: al-Ghazālī’s Arguments for the Certainty of Legal Analogy (Qiyās) Felicitas Opwis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
Deontic Modalities in Ibn Ḥazm Joep Lameer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
Splitting the Process and the Result: Philosophy from a Legal Perspective in Averroes’ Decisive Treatise Ziad Bou Akl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
Foundations of Ibn Taymiyya’s Religious Utilitarianism Jon Hoover Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
Value Ontology and the Assumption of Non-Assessment in Postclassical Shīʿī Legal Theory Robert Gleave Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
Tajarrī as Religious Luck Mirza Mohammad Kazem Askari and Amir Mohammad Emami Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
Concomitance to Causation: Arguing Dawarān in the Proto-Ādāb al-Baḥth Walter Edward Young Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	283
Index of Names Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	307
Index of Subjects Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	311

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: All those interested in Philosophy of law, Islamic history, Islamic jurisprudence, Islamic philosophy
Pages
- Front matter: 12
- Main content: 316
Keywords: Philosophy; jurisprudence; fiqh; Islam

eBook

Published: September 2, 2019
ISBN: 9783110552386

Hardcover

Published: September 2, 2019
ISBN: 9783110551976