Webinar: A talk with Ahmed El Shamsy on the ḥāshiya

The ḥāshiya (gloss/supercommentary) is a characteristic literary genre of postclassical Muslim scholarship. In the field of Sunni Islamic law, the ḥāshiya became the central site at which the dominant teaching of each school of law was elaborated, making earlier works obsolete. At the same time, the ḥāshiya operated within the influential “hierarchy of jurists” model developed in the thirteenth century, according to which successive generations of jurists moved progressively away from independent legal reasoning (ijtihād) toward strict following of school doctrine (taqlīd). This presentation reviews the formal features of the ḥāshiya genre, discusses its role in the construction of school authority, and proposes reasons for its modern disappearance.

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