Disagreements of the Jurists - 9780814763759

Disagreements of the JuristsA Manual of Islamic Legal Theory\nAuthor(s): al-Q??? al-Nu?m?n, Devin Stewart\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: New York University Press, United States\nImprint: New York University Press\nISBN-13: 9780814763759, 978-0814763759\nSynopsis\nA masterful overview of Islamic law and its diversity\n Al-Qadi al-Nu'man was the chief legal theorist and ideologue of the North African Fatimid dynasty in the tenth century. This translation makes available in English for the first time his major work on Islamic legal theory, which presents a legal model in support of the Fatimids' principle of legitimate rule over the Islamic community. Composed as part of a grand project to establish the theoretical bases of the official Fatimid legal school, Disagreements of the Jurists expounds a distinctly Shi'i system of hermeneutics, which refutes the methods of legal interpretation adopted by Sunni jurists. \n The work begins with a discussion of the historical causes of jurisprude.