Religion, Law and Learning in Classical Islam (Hardcover, New Ed)

This second selection of articles by George Makdisi concentrates on the schools of religious thought and legal learning in the medieval Islamic world and their defence of 'orthodoxy'. The author aims to review and re-assess the implications of the conflict between, first, the 'rationalist' and the 'traditional' theologians (the one accepting the influence of Greek philosophy, the other rejecting it), and then between one of these traditionalist schools - the Hanbali school of law - and Sufi mysticism. One of the most important consequences of the first of these confrontations, he contends, was the emergence of the schools of law as the guardians of the faith and theological orthodoxy. The final section of the book also looks at the structure of legal learning, at the institutions themselves, their organization and the principles upon which they operated. As well as entering the debate over the existence of corporations and guilds of law in classical Islam - maintaining that they did exist - these articles further suggest links between such institutions and the evolution of universities in the medieval West, and the Inns of Court in England, and discuss the Islamic and Arabic contribution to the concepts of academic amd intellectual freedom and to the development of scholasticism and humanism. Cette seconde collection d'articles par George Makdisi se concentre sur les ecoles de la pensee religieuse et de la science juridique, dans le monde islamique medieval. L'auteur a pris pour objectif de reviser et de re-evaluer les implications du conflit entre, premierement, les theologiens rationalistes et traditionalistes (les premieres etant ouverts A l'influence de la philosophie grecque que les seconds rejettaient) et, deuxiemement, entre l'une de ces ecoles traditionalistes - l'ecole de droit Hanbali - et le mysticisme Sufi. L'une des consequences les plus importantes, selon lui, de la premiere de ces confrontations A ete la po

General

Imprint:	Variorum
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Variorum Collected Studies
Release date:	October 1991
First published:	1991
Authors:	George Makdisi
Dimensions:	234 x 156mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	336
Edition:	New Ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-86078-301-5
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Non-Western philosophy > General Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Non-Christian religions > Islam Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Islamic studies Books > Philosophy > Non-Western philosophy > General Books > Religion & Spirituality > Non-Christian religions > Islam
LSN:	0-86078-301-4
Barcode:	9780860783015

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