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The Anthropology of Islamic Law Aria Nakissa (Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies and Anthropology, Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies and Anthropology, Washington University in St. Louis)

The Anthropology of Islamic Law By Aria Nakissa (Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies and Anthropology, Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies and Anthropology, Washington University in St. Louis)

The Anthropology of Islamic Law by Aria Nakissa (Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies and Anthropology, Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies and Anthropology, Washington University in St. Louis)

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The Anthropology of Islamic Law shows how hermeneutic theory and practice theory can be brought together to analyze cultural, legal, and religious traditions. These ideas are developed through an analysis of the Islamic legal tradition, which examines both Islamic legal doctrine and religious education.

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The Anthropology of Islamic Law: Education, Ethics, and Legal Interpretation at Egypt's Al-Azhar by Aria Nakissa (Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies and Anthropology, Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies and Anthropology, Washington University in St. Louis)

The Anthropology of Islamic Law shows how hermeneutic theory and practice theory can be brought together to analyze cultural, legal, and religious traditions. These ideas are developed through an analysis of the Islamic legal tradition, which examines both Islamic legal doctrine and religious education. The book combines anthropology and Islamicist history, using ethnography and in-depth analysis of Arabic religious texts. The book focuses on higher religious learning in contemporary Egypt, examining its intellectual, ethical, and pedagogical dimensions. Data is drawn from fieldwork inside al-Azhar University, Cairo University's Dar al-Ulum, and the network of traditional study circles associated with the al-Azhar mosque. Together these sites constitute the most important venue for the transmission of religious learning in the contemporary Muslim world. The book gives special attention to contemporary Egypt, and also provides a broader analysis relevant to Islamic legal doctrine and religious education throughout history.

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The Anthropology of Islamic Law is a must read for students of both classical and modern Islamic law, Islamic ethics, Islamic scriptural hermeneutics, religious education in the Muslim world, and postcolonial studies concerned with the wide-ranging institutional, epistemic, and pedagogical changes wrought by the advent of colonial modernity in Muslim lands, as well as for students of religious law, ethics, and scriptural hermeneutics more generally. * Carl Sharif El Tobgui, Journal of the American Oriental Society *
In a strikingly original work, Aria Nakissa brings contemporary philosophy together with deep ethnographic and textual knowledge to convey the logic and practices of traditionalist Islamic learning. Based on fieldwork in Cairo, the book provides the clearest account to date of competing Islamic approaches to Sharia. * John R. Bowen, Dunbar-Van Cleve Professor in Arts & Sciences, Professor of Anthropology, Washington University in St. Louis *
Professor Nakissa presents us with an erudite text. Deeply ethnographic, historically informed, and philosophically grounded, it draws the disparate strands of Islamic scholarship into a provocative synthesis. Scholars of Islam would benefit greatly from an engagement with Nakissa's arguments. * Ali Agrama, Associate Professor of Anthropology, at University of Chicago *
Aria Nakissa's innovative analysis of the transmission of Sharia knowledge at the venerable al-Azhar in Cairo combines a subtle ethnography of persisting academic relations based on teacher-student 'companionship' and emulation with astute readings in a wide variety of related conceptualizations in the history and present of Islamic thought. * Brinkley Messick, Professor of Anthropology and of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies, and Director of the Middle East Institute, Columbia University *
Drawing deeply on both ethnographic and textual evidence, Nakissa bridges a deep methodological divide in Islamic studies. This lucidly written and persuasively argued study will engage readers across multiple disciplines. * Marion H. Katz, Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, New York University *

About Aria Nakissa (Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies and Anthropology, Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies and Anthropology, Washington University in St. Louis)

Aria Nakissa is Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies and Anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis.

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The Anthropology of Islamic Law: Education, Ethics, and Legal Interpretation at Egypt's Al-Azhar by Aria Nakissa (Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies and Anthropology, Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies and Anthropology, Washington University in St. Louis)
Aria Nakissa (Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies and Anthropology, Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies and Anthropology, Washington University in St. Louis)
Oxford Islamic Legal Studies
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Oxford University Press Inc
2019-06-06
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