Islamic law in circulation : Shāfiʻī texts across the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean / Mahmood Kooria.

Islamic law in circulation : Shāfiʻī texts across the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean / Mahmood Kooria.

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2022.

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Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization.

Analysing the spread and survival of Islamic legal ideas and commentaries in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean littorals, Islamic Law in Circulation focuses on Shāfiʻīsm, one of the four Sunnī schools of Islamic law. It explores how certain texts shaped, transformed and influenced the juridical thoughts and lives of a significant community over a millennium in and between Asia, Africa and Europe. By examining the processes of the spread of legal texts and their roles in society, as well as thinking about how Afrasian Muslims responded to these new arrivals of thoughts and texts, Mahmood Kooria weaves together a narrative with the textual descendants from places such as Damascus, Mecca, Cairo, Malabar, Java, Aceh and Zanzibar to tell a compelling story of how Islam contributed to the global history of law from the thirteenth to the twentieth century.

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