The Jurist and the Theologian: Speculative Theology in Shāfiʿī Legal Theory

368 Pages·2017·4.542 MB·English

by  Mohamed Abdelrahman Eissa

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The Jurist and the Theologian
Speculative Theology in Shāfiʿī Legal Theory
Mohamed Ahmed Abdelrahman Eissa
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Table of Contents.....................................................................................v
Acknowledgments...................................................................................ix
Introduction ..............................................................................................1
Research Methodology ...................................................................4
Defining Speculative Theology and Legal Theory.....................7
Why the Shāfiʿī School of Law?..................................................11
Typologies of Legal Theory.........................................................13
Overview of Chapters...................................................................17
Chapter One: Modern Scholarship on the Relationship Between
Theology and Legal Theory.........................................................27
Introduction ...................................................................................27
The Historical Argument .............................................................28
The Causal Argument...................................................................32
Denying the Relationship.............................................................38
Theologized and Untheologized Legal Theory ........................42
The Compartmentalisation of Religious Disciplines ...............45
The Counterintuitive Effect ........................................................48
Conclusion......................................................................................53
Chapter Two: The Context...................................................................55
Introduction ...................................................................................55
Political Context ............................................................................56
Intellectual Context.......................................................................61
Traditionalism and Rationalism: Competition and
Rivalry...............................................................................61
Religious Educational Institutions and Schools of
Law ...................................................................................63
Traditionalization of Legal Theory.......................................68
Standardization of Legal Theory...........................................73
Four Biographies ...........................................................................75
ʿAbd al-Jabbār al-Hamadhānī................................................75
Abū Isḥāq al-Shīrāzī................................................................78
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