Intent in Islamic Law

Motive and Meaning in Medieval Sunnī Fiqh
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-90-04-29045-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 236 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 376 g

This book explores the nature and role of intent in pre-modern Islamic legal rule books, including ritual, commercial, family, and penal law. It argues that Muslim jurists treat intent as a definitive element of many actions regulated by the Shari’a, and they employ a variety of means and terms to assess and categorize subjective states.
Through detailed analyses of medieval Islamic texts, aided by Western philosophical examinations of intent, the author presents technically detailed yet lucid arguments about Islamic religious ritual and spirituality, the ethics of business transactions, the role of the inner self in crime and punishment, and Muslim understandings of agency and language.
This is the first extensive exploration of the crucial legal issue of intent in all major areas of Islamic substantive law.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Powers, Paul

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islamisches Recht
• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Islamisches Recht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Tables
Acknowledgments

Chapter One: Introduction
Chapter Two: Intent in Islamic Ritual Law
Chapter Three: Ritual Spirit and Ritual Intent
Chapter Four: Intent in Islamic Contract Law
Chapter Five: Intent in Islamic Personal Status Law
Chapter Six: Intent in Islamic Penal Law
Chapter Seven: Conclusion

Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Paul R. Powers, Ph.D. (2001) in History of Religions, University of Chicago, is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon. He is the author of “Finding God and Humanity in Language: Islamic Legal Assessments as the Meeting Point of the Divine and Human,” in Islamic Law in Theory: Studies in Jurisprudence in Honor of Bernard Weiss, ed. A. Kevin Reinhart and Robert Gleave (Brill, 2014).