Wael B. Hallaq
Auteur de The Origins and Evolution of Islamic Law
A propos de l'auteur
Wael B. Hallaq is the Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University.
Œuvres de Wael B. Hallaq
Law and Legal Theory in Classical and Medieval Islam (Collected Studies, Cs474) (1995) 6 exemplaires
Reforming Modernity: Ethics and the New Human in the Philosophy of Abdurrahman Taha (2019) 5 exemplaires
Tārīkh al-naẓarīyāt al-fiqhīyah fī al-Islām : muqaddimah fī uṣūl al-fiqh al-Sunnī (2007) 3 exemplaires
قصور الاستشراق: منهج في نقد العلم الحداثي 1 exemplaire
مدخل إلى الشريعة الإسلامية 1 exemplaire
İslam Hukukuna Entelektüel Bakış 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1955
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- Palestine (birth)
- Pays (pour la carte)
- USA
Membres
Critiques
Listes
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 19
- Membres
- 400
- Popularité
- #60,685
- Évaluation
- 4.2
- Critiques
- 2
- ISBN
- 44
- Langues
- 2
First sentence is "One of the fundamental features of the so-called modern Islamic resurgence is the call to restore the Shari'a, the religious law of Islam."
The last sentence is "The rise of modern dictatorships in the wake of the colonial experiences of the Muslim world is merely one tragic result of the process in which modernity wreaked violence on venerated traditional cultures."
Law is a cornerstone "in the reaffirmation of Islamic identity". The author does not seem perplexed by the irony -- a modern resurgence of religious law, a revenant claim of uniqueness behind a thrust for global dominance. Further, the author asserts that "even though the formative and modern periods" are two of the "most studied epochs", somehow they "remain comparatively unexplored". Perhaps this reflects the experience which scholars discover as they search for the Origins of Islamic Law--it disappears before it gets to 622. In the author's own words: "The quality of the sources from the first centuries of Islam is historiographically problematic." In my words, it is mythic.
The author notes that we now know that Joseph Schacht's findings have to be incorrect, and the all-important legal schools as "personal juristic entities" did not come into existence for another century--around the middle of the 10th century. [2]… (plus d'informations)