Applying the canon in Islam : the authorization and maintenance of interpretive reasoning in Ḥanafī scholarship
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Applying the canon in Islam : the authorization and maintenance of interpretive reasoning in Ḥanafī scholarship
（SUNY series, Toward a comparative philosophy of religions）
State University of New York Press, 1996
- pbk. : alk. paper
Available at 6 libraries
Note
Bibliography: p. 291-317
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Using examples from Islamic law, Ndembu divination, and Aranda religion, this book argues how the notion of "canon" is used to authorize and maintain certain types of interpretive reasoning and the social institutions that employ them. The bulk of the book outlines how the Ḥanafī school of Islamic law was able to legitimize itself by extending the canonical authority of the Qur'an to the sunnah of the prophet, the opinions of selected local authorities, and the scholarship of earlier generations. The Ḥanafī example shows that the application of canon is not about overcoming the limits of a "closed" text but rather about imposing limits on a range of interpretations made possible by a variegated and malleable textual corpus.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Note on Conventions
Introduction
1. The Authorization of Exegesis
2. Restricting Authority to the Classical Schools
3. The Logic of the Opinions
4. Maintenance of Authority
Conclusions
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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