Rebellion and Violence in Islamic Law

AvKhaled Abou El Fadl

Inbunden, Engelska, 2001

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Beskrivning

Khaled Abou El Fadl's book represents the first systematic examination of the idea and treatment of political resistance and rebellion in Islamic law. Pre-modern jurists produced an extensive and sophisticated discourse on the legality of rebellion and the treatment due to rebels under Islamic law. The book examines the emergence and development of these discourses from the eighth to the fifteenth centuries and considers juristic responses to the various terror-inducing strategies employed by rebels including assassination, stealth attacks and rape. The study demonstrates how Muslim jurists went about restructuring several competing doctrinal sources in order to construct a highly technical discourse on rebellion. Indeed many of these rulings may have a profound influence on contemporary practices. This is an important and challenging book which sheds light on the complexities of Islamic law and pre-modern attitudes to dissidence and rebellion.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2001-11-01
Mått:160 x 235 x 32 mm
Vikt:764 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:404
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9780521793117

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Asiens historia inom Historia och arkeologi

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Khaled Abou El Fadl is an Acting Professor at the University of California Los Angeles law school. His publications include The Search for Authority in Modern Islam (forthcoming).

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'This is an important, most interesting and challenging book which will shed light on Islamic law and pre-modern attitudes to dissidence and violence. El Fadl has written a brilliant, provocative and insightful study that must be read by everyone interested in understanding Islamic law.' Discourse

Innehållsförteckning

Preface and acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Modern scholarship and reorienting the approach to rebellion; 2. The doctrinal foundations of the laws of rebellion; 3. The historical context and the creative response; 4. The rise of the juristic discourse on rebellion: fragmentation; 5. The spread of the Islamic law of rebellion from the fourth/tenth to the fifth/eleventh centuries; 6. Rebellion, insurgency and brigandage: the developed positions and the emergence of trends; 7. The developed non-Sunni positions; 8. Negotiating rebellion in Islamic law; Works cited; Indexes.