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Pragmatism in Islamic Law: A Social and Intellectual History

Pragmatism in Islamic Law: A Social and Intellectual History

Ibrahim, Ahmed Fekry

Paperback

Series: Middle East Studies Beyond Dominant Paradigms

African HistoryIslamGeneral Law

ISBN10: 0815635176
ISBN13: 9780815635178
Publisher: Syracuse Univ Pr
Published: Jan 31 2017
Pages: 392
Weight: 1.14
Height: 0.83 Width: 5.94 Depth: 8.79
Language: English

In Pragmatism in Islamic Law, Ibrahim presents a detailed history of Sunni legal pluralism and the ways in which it was employed to accommodate the changing needs of society. Since the formative period of Islamic law, jurists have debated whether it is acceptable for a law to be selected based on its utility, rather than weighing conflicting articulations of the law to determine the most likely expression of the divine will. Virtually unanimous opposition to the utilitarian approach, referred to as pragmatic eclecticism, emerged among early Islamic jurists. However, due to a host of changing institutional and socioeconomic transformations, a trend toward the legitimization of pragmatic eclecticism arose in the thirteenth century. Subsequently, the Mamluk authorities institutionalized this pragmatism when Sultan Baybars appointed four chief judges representing the four Sunni schools in Cairo in 1265 CE. After a brief attempt to reverse Mamluk pluralism by imposing the Hanafi school in the sixteenth century, Egypt's new rulers, the Ottomans, embraced this pluralistic pragmatism. In examining over a thousand cases from three seventeenth- and eighteenthcentury Egyptian courts, Ibrahim traces the internal logic of pragmatic eclecticism

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