Comparative Islamic Law at Al Salam Institute- By Sh M. Akram Nadwi London & Online - Starts Sunday 12th October 2014 Text to Studied: HANAFI: Al-Hujjah of Muhammad al-Shaybani SHAFII: Kitab al-umm of al-Shafi’i ZAHIRI: Al-Muhalla of Ibn Hazm About the Text: Al-Hujjah fi ikhtilaf ahl al-Kufah wa ahl al-Madinah of Shaybani. Although Shaybani was trained in the Iraqi tradition, he also studied the Madinan system under Malik. In this work, Shaybani refutes many legal positions of the Madinans and shows how the leading Iraqi scholars – who would come to be known as Hanafis – possessed a vast amount of hadith, and had an erudite legal method that analysed that tradition. Kitab al-umm of Shafi’i is a foundational book of the Shafi’i school of law. It is another illustration of the expertise and open-mindedness that characterised early legal thought. Like Shaybani, Shafi’i was well travelled, and had learnt first-hand the legal traditions of Makkah, Madinah, Iraq and later Egypt. Therefore, his Umm shows his attempt at reconciling the competing narrations of these various legal traditions. Al-Muhalla of Ibn Hazm is a later legal work, whose primary benefit is to show the legal tradition of those jurists who did not believe in a wide utilisation of analogical reasoning (qiyas). Furthermore, the work assists a student to understand the legal reasoning of schools outside of the four standard Sunni legal schools of law, and how great these other schools were. Many scholars describe this work as an encyclopaedia of Islamic law, because of the detail with which he discusses the legal positions and evidences of various jurists, including those of Hasan al-Basri (d. 110 AH), al-Layth ibn Sa’d (d. 175 AH), Ata (d. 114 AH), Sufyan al-Thawri (d. 161 AH), al-Awzai (d. 157 AH), and others. Indeed, it has preserved the positions of many early jurists whose work was either not documented or lost. The only problem with al-Muhalla is that Ibn Hazm is often scathing in his criticism of his opponents, which has perhaps prevented it from being considered the best book of its kind on Islamic law. Nevertheless, its crucial importance remains. Course Start Date: 12 Oct 2014 Mode of study: Part-Time (Active or Passive) Venue: Osmani Centre, London, UK Online: Live and Recorded Access Lecturer: Shaykh Akram Nadwi To find out more please visit: al-salam.co.uk
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