Law, Empire, and the Sultan - Ottoman Imperial Authority and Late Hanafi Jurisprudence (Hardcover)

This book is the first study of late Hanafism in the early modern Ottoman Empire. It examines Ottoman imperial authority in authoritative Hanafi legal works from the Ottoman world of the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries CE, casting new light on the understudied late Hanafi jurists (al-muta'akhkhirun). By taking the madhhab and its juristic discourse as the central focus and introducing "late Hanafism" as a framework of analysis, this study demonstrates that late Hanafi jurists assigned probative value and authority to the orders and edicts of the Ottoman sultan. This authority is reflected in the sultan's ability to settle juristic disputes, to order specific opinions to be adopted in legal opinions (fatawa), and to establish his orders as authoritative and final reference points. The incorporation of sultanic orders into authoritative Hanafi legal commentaries, treatises, and fatwa collections was made possible by a shift in Hanafi legal commitments that embraced sultanic authority as an indispensable element of the lawmaking process.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Oxford Islamic Legal Studies
Release date:	2020
Authors:	Samy A. Ayoub (Assistant Professor of Law and Middle Eastern Studies)
Dimensions:	242 x 162 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	248
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-009292-4
Categories:	Books > Law > Jurisprudence & general issues > Jurisprudence & philosophy of law Books > Law > Jurisprudence & general issues > Comparative law Promotions
LSN:	0-19-009292-0
Barcode:	9780190092924

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