Law, Empire, and the Sultan : Ottoman Imperial Authority and Late Hanafi Jurisprudence Hardback
by Samy A. (Assistant Professor of Law and Middle Eastern Studies, Assistant Professor of Law an Ayoub
Part of the Oxford Islamic Legal Studies series
Hardback
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This book is the first study of late Hanafism in the early modern Ottoman Empire.
It examines Ottoman imperial authority in authoritative Hanafi legal works from the Ottoman world of the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries CE, casting new light on the understudied late Hanafi jurists (al-muta'akhkhirun).
By taking the madhhab and its juristic discourse as the central focus and introducing "late Hanafism" as a framework of analysis, this study demonstrates that late Hanafi jurists assigned probative value and authority to the orders and edicts of the Ottoman sultan.
This authority is reflected in the sultan's ability to settle juristic disputes, to order specific opinions to be adopted in legal opinions (fatawa), and to establish his orders as authoritative and final reference points.
The incorporation of sultanic orders into authoritative Hanafi legal commentaries, treatises, and fatwa collections was made possible by a shift in Hanafi legal commitments that embraced sultanic authority as an indispensable element of the lawmaking process.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:248 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
- Publication Date:31/01/2020
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- ISBN:9780190092924
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:248 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
- Publication Date:31/01/2020
- Category:
- ISBN:9780190092924
