Custom in Islamic Law and Legal Theory [electronic resource] : The Development of the Concepts of ?Urf and ??dah in the Islamic Legal Tradition /
Shabana, Ayman.author.
This book explores the relationship between custom and Islamic law and seeks to uncover the role of custom in the construction of legal rulings. On a deeper level, however, it deals with the perennial problem of change and continuity in the Islamic legal tradition (or any tradition for that matter).
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Custom and Islamic law in modern scholarship -- Normative foundations of the concept of custom in the islamic legal tradition -- From adah to urf : theological foundations of the concept of custom as reflected in the debate over causality -- Custom between the theoretical school and the applied school -- The expansion of legal theory -- Custom and legal maxims al-qawʻid al-fiqhiyyah -- Custom and the objectives of shariah, maqid al-shariah -- Custom, legal application, and the construction of reality.
This book explores the relationship between custom and Islamic law and seeks to uncover the role of custom in the construction of legal rulings. On a deeper level, however, it deals with the perennial problem of change and continuity in the Islamic legal tradition (or any tradition for that matter).
Islam.
Islam—Doctrines.
Private international law.
Conflict of laws.
Islam.
Islamic Theology.
Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law .