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In a richly narrated historical study, Soufi excavates an Islamic legal culture of critique from the 10th to 13th centuries. Focusing on the practice of munazara (disputation), Soufi explores how and why oral debates became a pervasive and revered part of the intellectual legal landscape of Iraq and Persia.

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Introduction Part I Chapter 1: Mourning Loss Through Debate: Pious Critique and its Limits Chapter 2: The Emergence of Pious Critique: a Genealogy of "Munazara" Chapter 3 "Why do We Debate?": Uncovering Two Discursive Foundations for Disputation Part II Chapter 4: Debating the Convert's Jizya: How the Madhhab Enabled Ijtihad Chapter 5: Forced Marriage in Shafi'i Law: Revisiting School Doctrine Chapter 6: The Case of the Mistaken Prayer Direction: Debating Indeterminate School Doctrine Part III Chapter 7: The End of Critical Islam?: Shafi'ism and Temporal Decay

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      Publisher Oxford University Press Inc
      Published 7 June 2023
      ISBN-13 9780197685006
      978-0197685006
      ISBN-10 0197685005
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      Law Jurisprudence and general issues Islam

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      In a richly narrated historical study, Soufi excavates an Islamic legal culture of critique from the 10th to 13th centuries. Focusing on the practice of munazara (disputation), Soufi explores how and why oral debates became a pervasive and revered part of the intellectual legal landscape of Iraq and Persia.

      Table of Contents
      Introduction Part I Chapter 1: Mourning Loss Through Debate: Pious Critique and its Limits Chapter 2: The Emergence of Pious Critique: a Genealogy of "Munazara" Chapter 3 "Why do We Debate?": Uncovering Two Discursive Foundations for Disputation Part II Chapter 4: Debating the Convert's Jizya: How the Madhhab Enabled Ijtihad Chapter 5: Forced Marriage in Shafi'i Law: Revisiting School Doctrine Chapter 6: The Case of the Mistaken Prayer Direction: Debating Indeterminate School Doctrine Part III Chapter 7: The End of Critical Islam?: Shafi'ism and Temporal Decay

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