TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rabb,Intisar A.
TI  - Doubt in Islamic law: a history of legal Maxims, interpretation, and Islamic criminal law 
T2  - Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization
SN  - 9781107080997
PY  - 2015///
CY  - New York : Cambridge University Press
KW  - Criminal law (Islamic law)
KW  - Interpretation and construction
KW  - Belief and doubt
KW  - Legal certainty
N1  - 'This book considers an important and largely neglected area of Islamic law by exploring how medieval Muslim jurists resolved criminal cases that could not be proven beyond a doubt, calling into question a controversial popular notion about Islamic law today, which is that Islamic law is a divine legal tradition that has little room for discretion or doubt, particularly in Islamic criminal law; Bibliography : page 359-403; Introduction. pt. I. Islamic Institutional Structures and Doubt, First/Seventh-Tenth/Sixteenth Centuries. 1. The God of severity and lenity -- 2. The rise of doubt. pt. II. Morality and Social Context, First/Seventh-Fifth/Eleventh Centuries. 3. Hierarchy and Hudud laws --4. Doubt as moral concern. pt. 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. pt. IV. Interpretive Authority, Second/Eighth-Tenth/Sixteenth Centuries. 7. Against Doubt : Strict textualism in opposition to doubt --8. Shiʻi Doubt : Dueling theories of delegation and interpretation. Conclusion : doubt in comparative and contemporary context
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