Rebellion and violence in Islamic law / Khaled Abou El Fadl.
2001
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Rebellion and violence in Islamic law / Khaled Abou El Fadl.
Imprint
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Description
1 online resource (xii, 391 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
Formatted Contents Note
Preface and acknowledgements
Introduction
Chap. 1. Modern scholarship and reorienting the approach to rebellion
Chap. 2. The doctrinal foundations of the laws of rebellion
Chap. 3. The historical context and the creative response
Chap. 4. The rise of the juristic discourse on rebellion : fragmentation
Chap. 5. The spread of the Islamic law of rebellion from the fourth/tenth to the fifth/eleventh centuries
Chap. 6. Rebellion, insurgency, and brigandage : the developed positions and the emergence of trends
Chap. 7. The developed non-Sunni positions
Chap. 8. Negotiating rebellion in Islamic law
Works cited
Index of names
Index of subjects.
Introduction
Chap. 1. Modern scholarship and reorienting the approach to rebellion
Chap. 2. The doctrinal foundations of the laws of rebellion
Chap. 3. The historical context and the creative response
Chap. 4. The rise of the juristic discourse on rebellion : fragmentation
Chap. 5. The spread of the Islamic law of rebellion from the fourth/tenth to the fifth/eleventh centuries
Chap. 6. Rebellion, insurgency, and brigandage : the developed positions and the emergence of trends
Chap. 7. The developed non-Sunni positions
Chap. 8. Negotiating rebellion in Islamic law
Works cited
Index of names
Index of subjects.
Summary
Khaled Abou El Fadl's book represents the first systematic examination of the idea and treatment of political resistance and rebellion in Islamic law. Pre-modern jurists produced an extensive and sophisticated discourse on the legality of rebellion and the treatment due to rebels under Islamic law. The book examines the emergence and development of these discourses from the eighth to the fifteenth centuries and considers juristic responses to the various terror-inducing strategies employed by rebels including assassination, stealth attacks and rape. The study demonstrates how Muslim jurists went about restructuring several competing doctrinal sources in order to construct a highly technical discourse on rebellion. Indeed many of these rulings may have a profound influence on contemporary practices. This is an important and challenging book which sheds light on the complexities of Islamic law and pre-modern attitudes to dissidence and rebellion.
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Cambridge Core.
Language
English
ISBN
9780511560163 ebook
9780521793117 (hardback)
9780521030571 (paperback)
9780521793117 (hardback)
9780521030571 (paperback)
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