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Doubt in Islamic law: a history of legal maxims.., c.1-2

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This book considers an important and largely neglected area of Islamic law by exploring how medieval Muslim jurists resolved criminal cases that could not be proven beyond a doubt. Intisar A. Rabb calls into question a controversial popular notion about Islamic law today, which is that Islamic law is a divine legal tradition that has little room for discretion or doubt, particularly in Islamic criminal law. Despite its contemporary popularity, that notion turns out to have been far outside the mainstream of Islamic law for most of its history. Instead of rejecting doubt, medieval Muslim scholars..

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345.06 RAB d.1-2

Publisher

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press., 2014

Collation

xiii, 416p.; 24 cm.

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

978-1-107-08099-7

Classification

345.06

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CRIMINAL LAW - ISLAM

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E

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