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Chapter 17 - Introduction to Part III

from Part III - Legal Opinions (Fatwās)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2024

Edited by
Omar Anchassi  and
Robert Gleave
Omar Anchassi
Affiliation:
Universität Bern, Switzerland
Robert Gleave
Affiliation:
University of Exeter
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Summary

This introduction to Section 3 of the volume on Fatwās explores the staples of the genre while attending to its tremendous diversity in different regional and temporal contexts, including a representative bibliography of recent scholarship on the subject.

Keywords

Jurisconsult (muftī)Petitioner (mustaftī)Indepdent legal judgement (ijtihād)Adherence to a competent legal authority (taqlīd).
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Islamic Law in Context
A Primary Source Reader
 , pp. 191 - 193
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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Further Reading

Agrama, Hussein Ali. ‘Ethics, Tradition, Authority: Toward an Anthropology of the Fatwa’, American Ethnologist 37 (2010), 2–18.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Fierro, Maribel. ‘Compiling Fatāwā in the Islamic West (Third/Ninth–Ninth/Fifteenth Centuries)’, Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 1 (2021), 43–100.Google Scholar
Hallaq, Wael B. ‘From Fatwās to Furūʿ: Growth and Change in Islamic Substantive Law’, Islamic Law and Society 1 (1994), 29–65.Google Scholar
Masud, M. Khalid, Messick, Brinkley and Powers, David (eds.). Islamic Legal Interpretation: Muftis and their Fatwas (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996).Google Scholar
Messick, Brinkley. ‘The Mufti, the Text and the World: Legal Interpretation in Yemen’, Man 21 (1986), 102–19.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Powers, David. Law, Society, and Culture in the Maghrib, 1300–1500 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Skovgaard-Petersen, Jakob. Defining Islam for the Egyptian State: Muftis and Fatwas of the Dār al-Iftāʾ (Leiden: Brill, 1997).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Terem, Etty. Old Texts, New Practices: Islamic Reform in Modern Morocco (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2014).Google Scholar
Tucker, Judith. ‘“And God Knows Best”: The Fatwa as a Source for the History of Gender in the Arab World’, in Beyond the Exotic: Women’s Histories in Islamic Societies, ed. El-Azhary Sonbol, Amira (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2005), 165–79.Google Scholar

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