Encyclopedia of Islamic Law: A Compendium of the Major Schools
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Professor Kevin Reinhart
This work demonstrates the scope of Islamic law and the range of positions available within it. Many of the topics of Islamic law are collected and organized here, and within each section the author has systematically presented the opinions of the four Sunni schools of law - Shafii, Hanbali, Maliki, and Hanafi - together with the school of the so-called Twelver Shiah, here called the Jafari school after the most important of the latter Imams, Jafar al-Sadiq. The goal has been to point out the obvious, yet often-ignored fact of both the unity and diversity of Islamic legal thought, and specifically that the divergence between the Jafari and the Shafii, Hanbali, Maliki and Hanafi is no greater than that among the Shafii, Hanbali, Maliki and Hanafi schools.
Book Description
The various schools of law are compared and contrasted on all issues of the Shariah including individual worship (purification, prescribed prayer, prescribed fasting, prescribed charity and prescribed pilgrimage), economic issues including inheritance, endowments, wills and bequests, legal disability and social issues of marriage and divorce.
Encyclopedia of Islamic Law: A Compendium of the Major Schools
Encyclopedia of Islamic Law: A Compendium of the Major Schools,Laleh Bakhtiar,Kevin Reinhart,Kazi Publications,1567444989,Encyclopedias,General,Islam - General,Islam - Law,Islamic Law,Law,Reference,Religion - World Religions,Islam,Jurisprudence,Jurisprudence & General Issues,Religion
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