Intent in Islamic law: motive and meaning in medieval Sunnī Fiqh

This book explores the nature and role of intent in pre-modern Islamic legal rule books, including ritual, commercial, family, and penal law. It argues that Muslim jurists treat intent as a definitive element of many actions regulated by the Shariʹa, and they employ a variety of means and terms to a...

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1. Verfasser: Powers, Paul R. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Leiden ; Boston Brill 2015
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Zusammenfassung:This book explores the nature and role of intent in pre-modern Islamic legal rule books, including ritual, commercial, family, and penal law. It argues that Muslim jurists treat intent as a definitive element of many actions regulated by the Shariʹa, and they employ a variety of means and terms to assess and categorize subjective states. Through detailed analyses of medeival Islamic texts, aided by Western philosophical examinations of intent, the author presents technically detailed yet lucid arguments about Islamic religious ritual and spirituality, the ethics of business transactions, the role of the inner self in crime and punishment, and Muslim understandings of agency and language
Beschreibung:Originally published in 2006 as volume 25 in the series Studies in Islamic law and society
Beschreibung:xii, 236 pages 24 cm
ISBN:9789004290457
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