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Islam and Literalism: Literal Meaning and Interpretation in Islamic Legal Theory
Robert Gleave
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Hardback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: HRH; LAFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 486. Literal Meaning and Interpretation in Islamic Legal Theory. 224 pages. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: HRH; LAFS. Dimension: 244 x 171 x 18. Weight: 486.
One of the characteristics of the 'conservative religious revival' movements in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is the commitment to a scriptural text as the sole source of knowledge, and an insistence on the literal interpretation of this text. However little has been to done to investigate this phenomenon of interpretation which proposes the literal meaning as the only acceptable one. This book fills this gap with respect to Islam, looking both at literal meaning and literalism. The focus is on the tradition of Muslim legal writings: in this literature there exists a complex procedure of how to identify ... Read more
One of the characteristics of the 'conservative religious revival' movements in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is the commitment to a scriptural text as the sole source of knowledge, and an insistence on the literal interpretation of this text. However little has been to done to investigate this phenomenon of interpretation which proposes the literal meaning as the only acceptable one. This book fills this gap with respect to Islam, looking both at literal meaning and literalism. The focus is on the tradition of Muslim legal writings: in this literature there exists a complex procedure of how to identify ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780748625703
SKU
V9780748625703
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About Robert Gleave
Robert Gleave is Professor of Arabic Studies at the University of Exeter. He is author of Inevitable Doubt: Two Theories of Shi'i Jurisprudence (E. J. Brill, 2000) and editor of Religion and Society in Qajar Iran (Routledge, 2004) and co-editor (with E. Kermeli) of Islamic Law: Theory and Practice (I. B. Tauris, 1997; paperback edition 2000).
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