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Doubt in islamic law : A history of legal maxims, interpretation, and islamic criminal law / Instisar A. Rabb

By: Rabb, Instisar APublication details: United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, c2015. Description: xiii, 416 p. ; 24 cmISBN: 9781107440517Subject(s): Criminal law (Islamic law)--Interpretation and construction | Belief and Doubt | Legal certainty | Legal maxims (Islamic law)-- History Islamic law- | Interprtation and constructionDDC classification: 345.06 RAB
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CONTENTS

PART I ISLAMIC INSTITUTIONAL STRUCTURES AND DOUBT, FIRST/SEVENTH-TENTH/SIXTEENTH CENTURIES
1.The God of Severity and Lenity
2 The Rise of Doubt

PART II MORALITY AND SOCIAL CONTEXT, FIRST/SEVENTH-FIFTH/ELEVENTH CENTURIES
3.Hierarchy and Hudud Laws
4.Doubt as Moral Concern

PART III THE JURISPRUDENCE OF DOUBT, SECOND/EIGHTH-TENTH/SIXTEENTH CENTURIES
5.Early Doubt: Doubt as an Element of Islamic Criminal Law
6.Sunni Doubt: Substantive, Procedural, and Interpretive Doubt

PART IV INTERPRETIVE AUTHORITY, SECOND/EIGHTH-TENTH/SIXTEENTH CENTURIES
7.Against Doubt: Strict Textualism in Opposition to Doubt
8.Shi'i Doubt: Dueling Theories of Delegation and Interpretation


Includes bibliographical references and index.

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