By Mariam Sheibani Source: Al-Qarāfī, Shihāb al-Dīn. Kitāb al-furūq aw Anwār al-burūq fī anwāʾ al-furūq. 3rd ed. Edited by Muḥammad Sarrāj and ʿAlī Jumuʿa. 2 vols. Cairo: Dār al-Salām, 2010. General … Continue reading Al-Qarāfī on the Importance of Legal Maxims and Distinctions in Jurisprudence
By Sheza Alqera Atiq Qarāfī et al. Al-Furūq : Aw Anwār Al-Burūq fī Anwāʼ Al-Furūq. al-Ṭabʻah 1. ed., pp 215-216, Dār Al-Kutub Al-ʻIlmīYah, 1998. Summary: The text in question is … Continue reading Hashīsh – Intoxicating or Just Corruptive? A 13th Century Jurist’s Distinctions
By Mariam Sheibani Source: Al-Qarāfī, Shihāb al-Dīn. Kitāb al-furūq aw Anwār al-burūq fī anwāʿ al-furūq. 3rd ed. Edited by Muḥammad Sarrāj and ʿAlī Jumuʿa. 2 vols. Cairo: Dār al-Salām, 2010. … Continue reading Al-Qarāfī’s collection of legal distinctions
By Alicia Daniel Citation: Alicia Daniel, Review of Sherman A. Jackson, Taqlīd, Legal Scaffolding and the Scope of Legal Injunctions in Post-Formative Theory Muṭlaq and ʿĀmm in the Jurisprudence of … Continue reading Scholarship in “Plain English”: Sherman Jackson on Taqlīd and the Evolution of Islamic Legal Reasoning
By Alicia Daniel Citation: Alicia Daniel, Review of Sherman A. Jackson, Kramer versus Kramer in a Tenth/Sixteenth Century Egyptian Court: Post-Formative Jurisprudence between Exigency and Law [Islamic Law and Society … Continue reading Scholarship in “Plain English”: Sherman Jackson on Interpretation and Legal Change in one Islamic Society on a Contentious Case of Family Law
