The Dialectical Forge identifies dialectical disputation (
jadal) as a primary formative dynamic in the evolution of pre-modern Islamic legal systems, promoting dialectic from relative obscurity to a more appropriate position at the forefront of Islamic legal studies. The author introduces and develops a dialectics-based analytical method for the study of pre-modern Islamic legal argumentation, examines parallels and divergences between Aristotelian dialectic and early juridical
jadal-theory, and proposes a multi-component paradigm—the Dialectical Forge Model—to account for the power of
jadal in shaping Islamic law and legal theory.
In addition to overviews of current evolutionary narratives for Islamic legal theory and dialectic, and expositions on key texts, this work shines an analytical light upon the considerably sophisticated “proto-system” of juridical dialectical teaching and practice evident in Islam’s second century, severalgenerations before the first “full-system” treatises of legal and dialectical theory were composed. This proto-system is revealed from analyses of dialectical sequences in the 2
nd/8
th century
Kitāb Ikhtilāf al-ʿIrāqiyyīn /
ʿIrāqiyyayn (the “subject-text”) through a lens molded from 5
th/11
th century
jadal-theory treatises (the “lens-texts”). Specific features thus uncovered inform the elaboration of a Dialectical Forge Model, whose more general components and functions are explored in closing chapters.
jadal) as a primary formative dynamic in the evolution of pre-modern Islamic legal systems, promoting dialectic from relative obscurity to a more appropriate position at the forefront of Islamic legal studies. The author introduces and develops a dialectics-based analytical method for the study of pre-modern Islamic legal argumentation, examines parallels and divergences between Aristotelian dialectic and early juridical
jadal-theory, and proposes a multi-component paradigm—the Dialectical Forge Model—to account for the power of
jadal in shaping Islamic law and legal theory.
In addition to overviews of current evolutionary narratives for Islamic legal theory and dialectic, and expositions on key texts, this work shines an analytical light upon the considerably sophisticated “proto-system” of juridical dialectical teaching and practice evident in Islam’s second century, severalgenerations before the first “full-system” treatises of legal and dialectical theory were composed. This proto-system is revealed from analyses of dialectical sequences in the 2
nd/8
th century
Kitāb Ikhtilāf al-ʿIrāqiyyīn /
ʿIrāqiyyayn (the “subject-text”) through a lens molded from 5
th/11
th century
jadal-theory treatises (the “lens-texts”). Specific features thus uncovered inform the elaboration of a Dialectical Forge Model, whose more general components and functions are explored in closing chapters.
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Table of Content
Chapter 1 The Current Project.- Chapter 2 Evolutionary Narratives.- Chapter 3 The Subject-Text and its Genre.- Chapter 4 The Full-System Jadal Theory of the Lens-Texts.- Chapter 5 Extended Dialectical Sequences.- Chapter 6 Short Dialectical Sequences & Independent Dialectical Formulae.- Chapter 7 A Picture of Proto-System Jadal.- Chapter 8 Uṣūl al-Fiqh and Jadal-Theory in the Dialectical Forge.- Chapter 9 Supplementary Paradigms and Open Doors.- Appendix I: al-Baṣrī’s Modes of Qiyās-Oriented Dialectic.- Appendix II: al-Shīrāzī’s Modes of Iʿtirāḍ.- Appendix III: al-Bājī’s Modes of Iʿtirāḍ.- Glossary: Select Technical Terms of Islamic Legal Theory and Dialectic.
Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 643 ● ISBN 9783319255224 ● File size 12.5 MB ● Publisher Springer International Publishing ● City Cham ● Country CH ● Published 2016 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 5025948 ● Copy protection Social DRM
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