The Mālikiyya in the Twenty-First Century: A Traditionalist Islamic Legal School Navigating State Co-optation, Reformist Pressures, and Neotraditionalist Impulses.
This article examines the contemporary trajectories of the Mālikiyya, one of the four main extant legal schools within Sunni Islam. The article argues that the contest around defending, attacking, and reformulating traditionalist Islamic fiqh (jurisprudence) is one of the key venues for negotiating...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Religion Vol. 105; no. 1; pp. 68 - 100 |
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University of Chicago Press
Jan2025
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