By Mahmood Kooria Introduction Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī (d. 505/1111) is one of the most famous intellectuals in Islamic history. His legacy in philosophy, theology, logic, metaphysics, and mysticism has been … Continue reading “If Ghazālī is a Prophet, the Wajīz is His Miracle”: Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī’s Codification of Shāfiʿī Law
By Mahmood Kooria and Eirik Hovden Islamic law, as it evolved over more than a millennium, appeared messier with the passage of time, even to an informed observer. The number … Continue reading Standardization of Islamic Law
By Mahmood Kooria The Qurra-Fatḥ was received well among the Shāfiʿī Muslims, especially in the nineteenth century—a period of multiple syntheses for Shāfiʿīsm in terms of its geographical, intellectual, and … Continue reading Two Supercommentaries
By Mahmood Kooria By the sixteenth century the Muslim communities on the Indian Ocean littoral were participating intensively in Islamic intellectual networks, producing many jurists and composing many texts. They … Continue reading An Autocommentary
By Mahmood Kooria The most renowned commentary of the Minhāj is Tuḥfat al-muḥtāj written by Ibn Ḥajar al-Haytamī (1504-1567), an Egyptian scholar who built up a successful career in Mecca. … Continue reading A Commentary
By Mahmood Kooria The Minhāj al-ṭālibīn of Yaḥyā al-Nawawī (1233-1277) is the text that codified Shāfiʿī school of Islamic law. No other text has attracted as many commentators from within … Continue reading A Code
By Mahmood Kooria The postclassical commentarial literature of Islamic law, once ignored for being repetitive and inauthentic, now has been receiving considerable scholarly attention. Through the processes of canonization, codification, … Continue reading Commentarial Ocean
