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

Year 2011, Volume: 2 Issue: 2, 254 - 256, 11.04.2012
https://doi.org/10.12730/13091719.2011.22.42

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The hermeneutical aspects of Islamic legal theory (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” (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” (p. xv).

Year 2011, Volume: 2 Issue: 2, 254 - 256, 11.04.2012
https://doi.org/10.12730/13091719.2011.22.42

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Primary Language English
Subjects Religious Studies
Journal Section Book Reviews
Authors

Wilferd Madelung This is me

Publication Date April 11, 2012
Submission Date April 1, 2011
Published in Issue Year 2011 Volume: 2 Issue: 2

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ISNAD Madelung, Wilferd. “The Formation of Islamic Hermeneutics: How Sunni Legal Theorists Imagined a Revealed Law, by David R. Vishanoff”. Ilahiyat Studies 2/2 (April 2012), 254-256. https://doi.org/10.12730/13091719.2011.22.42.
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