Lexington Books
Pages: 264
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978-1-4985-1215-2 • Hardback • December 2018 • $117.00 • (£90.00)
978-1-4985-1216-9 • eBook • December 2018 • $111.00 • (£85.00)
Husain Kassim is emeritus associate professor, University of Central Florida.
Chapter One Al-Shāfiʿī’s Concept of Hermeneutics: The Risāla and the Role it has played in the hermeneutical Formation of Islamic legal system
Chapter Two Hermeneutics in the Genre of Mukhtaṣar, its Significance, and Emergence in the Formation of Islamic legal system
Chapter Three Shāfiʿī School of Law: Hermeneutics as Reflected in K al-Umm, al-Muzanī’s Mukhtaṣar, and al-Shīrāzī’s Tanbīh
Chapter Four Ḥanafī School of Law: Hermeneutics as Reflected in al-Ţaḥāwī’s Mukhtaṣar, al-Qudūrī’s Mukhtaṣar, and al-Marghīnānī’s Hidāya in Refrence
Chapter Five Ḥanbalī School of Law: Hermeneutics as Reflected in Aḥmad ibn Ḥambal’s Masāʾil Collections and al-Khiraqī’s Mukhtaṣar
Chapter Six Mālikī School of Law: Hermeneutics as Refleced in Khalīl’s Mukhtaṣar
Chapter Seven Differences of Opinion in Different Schools of Law from the Hermeneutical Perspective
Husain Kassim elegantly shows the role and extent of textual hermeneutics in the Mukhtaṣar, the systematizing, summarizing and interpreting texts of Islamic law from the early days of Islamic jurisprudence. Kassim’s detailed and careful analysis demonstrates the interpretive and linguistic mechanisms of thought and meaning at work between the Qur’ān, the Ḥadīth and Mukhtaṣar, which enables the application of legal and moral principles for specific circumstances and contexts. This book will be of interest not only to scholars of Islamic law, but also to historians and theorists of textual, legal, and religious hermeneutics.
— Bruce Janz, University of Central Florida