The Anthropology of Islamic Law: Education, Ethics, and Legal Interpretation at Egypt’s Al-Azhar 1st Edition

The Anthropology of Islamic Law: Education, Ethics, and Legal Interpretation at Egypt’s Al-Azhar 1st Edition – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780190932886,0190932880,9780190932909, 0190932902

Product details:

• ISBN-10: 0190932902 
• ISBN-13: 9780190932909
• Author: Aria Nakissa

The Anthropology of Islamic Law shows how hermeneutic theory and practice theory can be brought together to analyze cultural, legal, and religious traditions. These ideas are developed through an analysis of the Islamic legal tradition, which examines both Islamic legal doctrine and religious education. The book combines anthropology and Islamicist history, using ethnography and in-depth analysis of Arabic religious texts. The book focuses on higher religious learning in contemporary Egypt, examining its intellectual, ethical, and pedagogical dimensions. Data is drawn from fieldwork inside al-Azhar University, Cairo University’s Dar al-Ulum, and the network of traditional study circles associated with the al-Azhar mosque. Together these sites constitute the most important venue for the transmission of religious learning in the contemporary Muslim world. The book gives special attention to contemporary Egypt, and also provides a broader analysis relevant to Islamic legal doctrine and religious education throughout history.

Table contents:

Section I: Theory, Ethnography, History

Section II: Traditional Islamic Learning and Legal Doctrine

Section III: A New Perspective On Islamic Legal Doctrine

Section IV: Modern Reform

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