The Formation of Islamic Hermeneutics: How Sunni Legal Theorists Imagined a Revealed Law, by David R. Vishanoff

Authors : Wilferd MADELUNG

Pages : 254-256

Doi:10.12730/13091719.2011.22.42

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Publication Date : 2012-04-11

Article Type : Other Papers

Abstract :The hermeneutical aspects of Islamic legal theory insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(uṣūl al-fiqh);, defined by the author of the present book as “the part of legal the-ory that focuses on the analysis and interpretation of the language of a scriptural canon” insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(p. xiii);, has in recent decades been subject of a few significant detail studies, but not of any comprehensive systema-tic treatment. The present book provides a first comprehensive and systematic analysis of the development of Sunnī legal hermeneutics from its origins through the first half of the 5th/11th century, descri-bed by the author as “the formative or preclassical period of Islamic legal hermeneutics.” The classical period, Vishanoff explains, began “in the second half of the 5th/11th century, which witnessed a sudden proliferation of major works that would become enduring points of reference for the discipline by scholars such as Abū l-Walīd al-Bājī, Abū Isḥāq al-Shīrāzī, Abū l-ʿUsr al-Bazdawī, Imām al-Ḥaramayn al-Juwaynī, al-Sarakhsī, al-Ghazālī, Ibn ʿAqīl, and Ibn Barhān” insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(p. xv);.
Keywords : Islamic Hermeneutics, How Sunni Legal Theorists, David R Vishanoff

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