Law and Tradition in Classical Islamic Thought: Studies in Honor of Professor Hossein Modarressi

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Abū Baṣīr Tradition: Qur’ānic Verses on the Merits of the Shī‘a....Pages 3-19
Criteria for Emending the Text of the Qur’ān....Pages 21-41
Muʿāwiya in the Ḥijāz: The Study of a Tradition....Pages 43-64
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The Kitāb al-waṣiyya of ʿĪsā b. al-Mustafād: The History of a Text....Pages 67-79
Women in Imāmī Biographical Collections....Pages 81-97
Why Incline to the Left in Prayer? Sectarianism, Dialectic, and Archaeology in Imāmī Shīʿism....Pages 99-124
Front Matter....Pages 125-125
Dissent and Uncertainty in the Process of Legal Norm Construction in Muslim Sunnī Law....Pages 127-144
Islamic Legal Minimalism: Legal Maxims and Lawmaking When Jurists Disappear....Pages 145-166
Cultivating Human Rights: Islamic Law and the Humanist Imperative....Pages 167-183
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Yaḥyā b. ʿAdī’s Discussion of the Prolegomena to the Study of a Philosophical Text....Pages 187-201
Two Commentaries on Najm al-Dīn al-Kātibī’s al-Shamsiyya, Copied in the Hand of David b. Joshua Maimonides (fl. ca. 1335–1410 CE)....Pages 203-226
Logic in the Khayrābādī School of India: A Preliminary Exploration....Pages 227-243
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The Eastern Travels of Solomon: Reimagining Persepolis and the Iranian Past....Pages 247-267
Al-Ḥasan b. Mūsā al-Nawbakhtī on the Views of Astronomers and Astrologers....Pages 269-278
Conversion and Law: A Muslim-Christian Comparison....Pages 279-290
Back Matter....Pages 291-326