The Sunna and its Status in Islamic Law: The Search for a Sound Hadith (Palgrave Series in Islamic Theology, Law)

This volume provides an overview of the nature and scope of the concept of Sunna both in pre-modern and modern Islamic discussions. The main focus is on shedding more light on the context in which the term Sunna in the major works of Islamic law and legal theory across all of the major madhahib was employed during the first six centuries Hijri. Front Matter....Pages i-ix Introduction: The Concept of sunna and Its Status in Islamic Law....Pages 1-12 The Concept of sunna Based on the Analysis of sīra and Historical Works from the First Three Centuries of Islam....Pages 13-38 Uṣūl al-sunna: The Tenets of Islamic Orthodoxy and Orthopraxy According to the Traditionalists (Ahl al-ḥadīth)....Pages 39-57 The Concept of sunna in Mu‘tazilite Thought....Pages 59-73 The Sunnification of Ḥadīth and the Hadithification of sunna....Pages 75-95 The Concept of sunna in the Ibāḍī School....Pages 97-115 The Concept of sunna in Early and Medieval Ḥanafism....Pages 117-138 The Concept of sunna in the Early Shāfi‘ī Madhhab....Pages 139-162 From Tradition to Institution: sunna in the Early Ḥanbalī School....Pages 163-194 Sunna in the Ẓāhirī Madhhab....Pages 195-209 The Relative Status of Ḥadīth and sunna as Sources of Legal Authority vis-`-vis the Qur’ān in Muslim Modernist Thought....Pages 211-231 Back Matter....Pages 233-256 "How exactly are the various proponents of contemporary Muslim reformist thought employing the concept of Maqasid al Shari'a for the purposes of their reformist agenda? How useful or effective is the concept of Maqasid Al Shari'a, understood as both as a classical legal hermeneutical construct developed by premodern Islamic legal theoreticians, as well as its contemporary re-conceptualizations in meeting the challenges Muslim reformist thought is responding and seeking to find solutions to? This volume is unique in critically examining the employment of maqasid al shari'a in contemporary Muslim reformist thought in relation to number of specific philosophical, legal, ethical, social and political issues"-- Provided by publisher