Islamic legal interpretation : muftis and their fatwas / [print]
edited by Muhammad Khalid Masud, Brinkley Messick, David S. Powers.
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, (c)1996.
- x, 431 pages ; 24 cm.
Muftis, fatwas, and Islamic legal interpretation Ifta' and ijtihad in Sunni legal theory : a developmental account Learning atmosques in al-Andalus Caliphal legitimacy and expiation in al-Andalus Ibn Taymiyya on leadership in the ritual prayer Use and abuse of the law : a mufti's response Dhimmi women and mourning The art of the legal opinion : al-Wansharisi on Tawlij When women went to mosques : al-Aydini on the duration of assessments Child marriage in seventeenth-century Palestine Eleven fetvas of the Ottoman Sheikh ul-Islam 'Abdurrahim Fatvas as asymmetrical dialogues : Muhammad Karim Khan Kirmani and his questioners Sacred space and holy war in India Apostasy and judicial separation in British India Are Wahhabis kafirs? : Ahmad Riza Khan Barelwi and his Sword of the Haramayn The lions of Qasr al-+il Bridge : the Islamic prohibition of images as an issue in the 'Urabi revolt The Council ofIndonesian "Ulama" : on Muslims' attendance at Christmas celebrations A modern Indian mufti The complementarity of Ifta' and Qada : three Saudi fatwas on divorce The fatwa as an instrument of accomodation Postmortem examinations in Egypt Operation Desert Storm and the war of fatwas Media muftis : radio fatwas in Yemen Muhammad Khalid Masud, Brinkley Messick, David S. Powers -- Wael B. Hallaq -- Manuela Marin -- Maribel Fierro -- Bernard Weiss -- Nissreen Haram -- Seth Ward -- David S. Powers -- A. Kevin Reinhart -- Harald Motzki -- Colin Imber-- The fatwas of condemnation John Ralph Willis -- Setrag Manoukian -- Juan Rhode Island Cole-- Two fatwas on Hajj in British India Barbara D. Metcalf -- Muhammad Kahlid Masud -- Usha Sanyal -- Rudolph Peters-- An argument about how to argue William R. Roff -- Mohamad Atho Mudzhar -- Gregory C. Kozlowski-- Mut'a : regulating sexuality and gender relations in postrevolutionary Iran Shahla Haeri -- Frank E. Vogel -- Aharon Layish -- Chibli Mallat -- Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad -- Brinkley Messick.