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Chapters on Marriage and Divorce

Responses of Ibn Hanbal and Ibn Rahwayh

By: Susan A. Spectorsky

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Chapters on Marriage and Divorce

Responses of Ibn Hanbal and Ibn Rahwayh

By: Susan A. Spectorsky

While western-derived legal codes have superseded Islamic law in many parts of the Muslim world, Islamic, Koran-based law still retains its force in the area of marriage and family relations, the area that is key to the status of women. This work makes available for the first time in English three compilations of responses to questions about family law given by two prominent Muslim jurists of the ninth century (third century of Islam)—Ahmad b. Hanbal, the eponymous founder of the Hanbali rite of Sunni Islam (the one dominant in Saudi Arabia), and Ishaq b. Rahwayh. These compilations are basic sources for the study of the development of legal thinking in Islam. The introduction to the translation locates the compilations in a historical context and elucidates how the various issues of family law are treated. An appendix contains a collation of the significant variants among the manuscripts and printed versions of the Arabic texts. The volume concludes with a topical index and an index of names.

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University of Texas Press

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Women in Classical Islamic Law

A Survey of the Sources

By: Susan Ann Spectorsky

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Women in Classical Islamic Law

A Survey of the Sources

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Drawing on legal and ad th texts from the formative and classical periods of Islamic legal history, this book offers an overview of the development of the questions prominent jurists asked and answered about women s issues. All assumed a woman would marry and thus the book concentrates on women s family life. The introduction establishes the historical framework within which the jurists worked. A chapter on Qur n verses devoted to women s lives is followed by chapters on marriage and divorce which compare the views of jurists during the formative period. The fourth chapter describes the evolution from the formative to the classical periods. The fifth uses material from both periods to describe the array of legal opinion about other aspects of women s lives in and outside their homes. Throughout, jurists opinions are juxtaposed with relevant quotations from contemporaneous ad th collections.

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9004174354

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Women in Classical Islamic Law

A Survey of the Sources

By: Susan Ann Spectorsky

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A Survey of the Sources

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Chapters on Marriage and Divorce

Chapters on Marriage and Divorce

Women in Classical Islamic Law

Women in Classical Islamic Law

Women in Classical Islamic Law

Women in Classical Islamic Law

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