Books & Education
"Doubt in Islamic Law" signed copy
- Item Number
- 310
- Estimated Value
- 100 USD
- Sold
- 34 USD to ad11915af
- Number of Bids
- 1 - Bid History
Item Description
"Doubt in Islamic Law" Personally Inscribed by the Award-Winning Director of Harvard's Islamic Legal Studies Program and Author Intisar Rabb
Professor Intisar Rabb is an award-winning Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and director of its Islamic Legal Studies Program. Rabb also holds an appointment as a Professor of History at Harvard University and as a Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Her 2015 monograph, "Doubt in Islamic Law," considers an important and largely neglected area of Islamic law by exploring how medieval Muslim jurists resolved criminal cases that could not be proven beyond a doubt. Rabb calls into question a controversial popular notion about Islamic law today, which is that Islamic law is a divine legal tradition that has little room for discretion or doubt, particularly in Islamic criminal law. Despite its contemporary popularity, that notion turns out to have been far outside the mainstream of Islamic law for most of its history. Instead of rejecting doubt, medieval Muslim scholars largely embraced it. In fact, they used doubt to enlarge their own power and to construct Islamic criminal law itself. Through a close examination of legal, historical, and theological sources, and a range of illustrative case studies, this book shows that Muslim jurists developed a highly sophisticated and regulated system for dealing with Islam's unique concept of doubt, which evolved from the seventh to the sixteenth century. *This book will be personally inscribed for you by the author upon your winning bid. Contact hatdgn@gmail.com to make arrangements.*
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Intisar Rabb
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