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Custom in Islamic Law and Legal Theory: The Development of the Concepts of ‘Urf and ‘Ādah in the Islamic Legal Tradition

✍ Scribed by Ayman Shabana (auth.)

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan US
Year
2010
Tongue
English
Leaves
256
Series
Palgrave Series in Islamic Theology, Law, and History
Category
Library
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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Introduction....Pages 1-14
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
Custom and Islamic Law in Modern Scholarship....Pages 17-42
Front Matter....Pages 43-43
Normative Foundations of the Concept of Custom in the Islamic Legal Tradition....Pages 45-58
From ˓Ādah to ˓Urf Theological Foundations of the Concept of Custom as reflected in the Debate over Causality....Pages 59-70
Custom between the Theoretical School and the Applied School....Pages 71-91
Front Matter....Pages 93-93
The Expansion of Legal Theory....Pages 95-110
Custom and Legal Maxims....Pages 111-124
Custom and the Objectives of Sharī˓ah....Pages 125-146
Custom, Legal Application, and the Construction of Reality....Pages 147-166
Conclusion....Pages 167-171
Back Matter....Pages 173-246

✦ Subjects

Islam; Islamic Theology; Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law

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