Islamic Legal Interpretation - Muftis and Their Fatwas [Hardcover]

Brinkley Messick and David S. Powers Muhammad Khalid Masud (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: 2005

In an age when the West is struggling to cope with its own distant, archaic and over-priced legal system, this book is a fascinating insight into how the Islamic world has sought to make its justice accessible both to the rich and poor, educated and illiterate. - Nicolas Pelham, International Affairs. This book is the product of a huge collective effort by scholars from all over the world to study Islamic Fatwa, or legal opinions of the Shariah, issued by those qualified to do so, the Muftis. The book ranges over the whole history of Islam and covers topics as diverse as child marriage and the Gulf War, Hajj and Islamic banking, leadership in Salat and the use of radio in modern Yemen to give broadcast Fatwas... [S]tudy of [this book] is extremely worthwhile. - Dr. Muhammad Haroon, Islamic Times, UK. This book will be welcomed as a broad study of an important legal institution. It is the first study ever on the fatwa and the mufti. - Jeanette Wakin, Columbia University. The fatwa is one of the foundation stones of the Islamic legal system, and the inportance of this book lies in drawing the attention of the Western scholarly audience to it. After a lucid introduction to the theory and practice of fatwas, individual articles expose a great diversity of fatwas, examining each of them in close-focus or dense description. Authors approach the cases intelligently, suggestively, and from a broad variety of disciplines. By the end of the book the reader has gained a rich experience of fatwas, and has learned how fundamental and essential, and how subtly versatile, they are. - Frank E. Vogel, Harvard Law School.

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Oxford University Press; 1st edition (2005)
• ASIN: B000P3OLU2