The Lost Oral Genesis of Classical Islamic Law: The Case of an Eleventh-Century Disputation (munāẓara)on Broken Oaths.
This article places the textual production of classical Islamic law in its proper historical context. It does so by examining a transcript of an eleventh-century oral debate, or disputation (munāẓara), between the Shafiʿi and Hanafi jurists Abū al-Ṭayyib al-Ṭabarī (d. 450/1058) and Abū al-Ḥasan al-Ṭ...
| Publicado en: | Journal of the American Oriental Society Vol. 141; no. 4; pp. 823 - 847 |
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American Society for Premodern Asia (ASPA)
Oct-Dec2021
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