Indexing the translation of Fath al-Bari, a multi-volume Islamic classic

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-182
Author(s):  
Ælfwine Mischler
Keyword(s):  
English Translation ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
Sunni Islam

Hadith, the collected traditions of Prophet Muhammad, are the second source of Islamic law after the Qurʾan. The Sahih of al-Bukhari is the most authoritative collection of hadith in Sunni Islam, and Fath al-Bari by Ibn Hajar is one of the most important commentaries on the Sahih. While al-Bukhari has been available in English translation since 1971, Ibn Hajar is only being translated now. Ælfwine Mischler was asked to write multiple indexes for the translation of this multi-volume classic Islamic text. In this article, she describes the nature of Ibn Hajar’s work, some of the challenges in indexing it, and her solutions for writing both cumulative and single-volume indexes.

Translator’s Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shihab al-Din Ahmad ibn Idris al-Qarafi al-Maliki
Keyword(s):  
English Translation ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
Present Volume ◽  
Legal Opinions ◽  
Substantive Law

This chapter provides an overview of the present volume, which is the first English translation of the Al-I ṭk ām fī Tamyīz al-Fatāwa ʿan al-Aṭkām wa Taṣarrufāt al-Qāḍīwa'l-Imām (The Criterion for Distinguishing Legal Opinions from Judicial Rulings and the Administrative Acts of Judges and the Ruler [hereafter, “the Criterion”]) by Shihāb al-Dīn Ahmad b. Idrīs al-Qarāfā. This work is neither of theoretical jurisprudence nor of substantive law, but exists at the intersection of both. The Criterion aims to reconcile the idea of divinely revealed law with the fact that the practical norms of Islamic law can be applied only through the actions of particular human institutions.

The Criterion for Distinguishing Legal Opinions from Judicial Rulings and the Administrative Acts of Judges and Rulers

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shihab al-Din Ahmad ibn Idris al-Qarafi al-Maliki
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
English Translation ◽  
English Language ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
Seminal Work ◽  
Late Middle Ages ◽  
Legal Texts ◽  
Legal Opinions ◽  
Subsequent Revision

This book is the first and much-needed English translation of a thirteenth-century text that shaped the development of Islamic law in the late middle ages. Scholars of Islamic law can find few English language translations of foundational Islamic legal texts, particularly from the understudied Mamluk era. This edition addresses this gap, finally making the great Muslim jurist Shihab al-Din al-Qarafi's seminal work available to a wider audience. The book's examination of the distinctions among judicial rulings, which were final and unassailable; legal opinions, which were advisory and not binding; and administrative actions, which were binding but amenable to subsequent revision, remained standard for centuries and are still actively debated today.

scholarly journals Menjadi Muslim di Negara Multikultural: Dinamika, Tantangan dan Strategi dalam Perspektif Fikih Multikultural

AL- ADALAH ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 263
Author(s):  
Masnun Tahir
Keyword(s):  
Islamic Law ◽  
Daily Basis ◽  
Life Strategy ◽  
Nahdlatul Ulama ◽  
Mass Organization ◽  
Sunni Islam

Indonesian Islam is a unique one, pluralist and multiculturalist as Nahdlatul Ulama Islam, Muhammadiyah Islam, Shiah Islam, Sunni Islam and much more which has diverse consequences for its followers. As matter of fact, the diversity continues to face challenges. An Accusation against moderate and multiculturalism through violence is perpetrated by individual actors, mass organization and the most authoritatve institution that should be the guarantor of religious moderatism within the framework of Indonesian-ness. At the extreme level, the resistance is manifested in a series of intolerant actions such as expulsion.This paper aimed to present how life strategy in the nuances of multicultural from the perspective of Islamic law. The idea of fiqh that is sensitive to multiculturalism becomes important for Muslims in Indonesia to have a diversity of perspectives in the daily basis.

Tianfang Sanzijing: Exchanges and Changes in China’s Reception of Islamic Law

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberta Tontini
Keyword(s):  
Islamic Law ◽  
Legal Discourse ◽  
Legal Culture ◽  
Chinese Context ◽  
Legal Principles ◽  
Islamic Jurisprudence ◽  
Sunni Islam

This chapter examines the implications of the legal discourse set forth by a Chinese primer for Muslims, the Tianfang Sanzijing (Three Character Classic of Islam), regarding notions of Islamic “legitimacy” and “orthodoxy.” Credited to the author of the Tianfang Dianli, Liu Zhi (1662-ca. 1736), and animated by that book’s purpose of reconciling Islamic law with the legal culture of the Qing, Liu’s concise primer on the main tenets of Islam spoke to a broader audience than its textual antecedent. This chapter argues that the Muslim Sanzijing set the ground for an independent development of Islamic law in the Chinese context, one that had the power to detach China from conventional Islamic jurisprudence outside its frontiers while remaining consistent with the overarching legal principles of Sunni Islam.

Mufti Muḥammad Taqī 'usmānī and His Scholarly Contribution To The Qur’ānic Studies

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 94-109
Author(s):  
Zaharudin Nawi ◽  
Zunaidah Mohd Marzuki
Keyword(s):  
English Translation ◽  
Analytical Approach ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
Comparative Religion ◽  
Islamic Finance ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
Islamic Jurisprudence ◽  
The World ◽  
Scholarly Contribution ◽  
Muslim Scholars

Mufti Taqi UsmÉnÊ of Pakistan is one of the most prominent contemporary Muslim scholars from Deobandi and Waliyullah`s School of Thought. He is not only a leading living scholar of Islamic Jurisprudence and Islamic finance, but also a scholar and an intellectual of the Qur´Én, the Hadith, Islamic law, and comparative religion. He has always been placed among the top fifty in “The 500 Most Influential Muslims” in the world since 2009 until 2016. His works on the sciences of Qur´Én and the interpretation of the Holy Qur´Én show his scholarship in this field. The writing of “UlËm Al-Qur´Én” (An Approach to the Qur´Énic Sciences in Urdu), “The Meanings of the Noble Qur´Én” (English translation of the Quran) and “ÓsÉn Tarjamah Qur´Én” (The simple translation of the Qur´Én with notes in Urdu) are his major works in the field of Qur´Én. His supervision of translating the “MaÑÉriful Qur´Én” of his father, MaulÉnÉ Mufti SyafÊÑ, from Urdu to English is considered as his magnificent endeavor and contribution to this field. This paper aims to discover the biography of Mufti TaqÊ UsmÉnÊ and his scholarly contribution towards the interpretation of the Holy Qur´Én in the above-mentioned works. The paper uses a descriptive analytical approach to discuss his biography and his contributions. The analysis shows that Mufti TaqÊ UsmÉnÊ is a continuity of Waliyullah`s tradition and Deobandi scholars’ in contributing Quranic teaching to ordinary people as well as scholars through his writings and his other scholarly works.

Correspondence, Constructivism, and Representation

2019 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 513-527
Author(s):  
Junaid Quadri
Keyword(s):  
Islamic Law ◽  
Legal Reasoning ◽  
Sunni Islam ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Point Of Departure

Abstract Taking the complexity and diversity of Islamic law (fiqh) as a point of departure, this article examines a series of positions advanced by Muslim jurists on the relationship between law and astronomy. Focusing primarily on the question of the appropriateness of relying on astronomical calculations to determine the months of the hijri calendar, it considers three epistemological stances modeled by these positions: correspondence, constructivism, and representation. Taken together, these interventions constitute a minoritarian strain within the fiqh literature that exploited the practices, structures, and methods of reasoning of the Hanafi and Shafi‘i legal schools (madhhabs) to argue in favor of the employment of astronomical calculations for ritual purposes. Though these were anomalous positions at variance from the dominant evidentiary regime that privileged perception over calculation, the view from the margins they afford provide a helpful window onto the nature of legal reasoning in Sunni Islam, revealing the importance of not only proximate social triggers to change, but also the relevance of more enduring features of madhhab reasoning—the school's role as a historical repository of jurists' opinions, the propensity to recruit the authority and argumentation of preceding departures, and the expectation to proceed with the majority regime in mind.

scholarly journals Abu Ishak al-Thalabi’s “The Lives of the Prophets” as a Source of “The Embassy of Isa to Antioch” Attested in Lithuanian Tatars’ Kitabs

2019 ◽  
Vol 64 ◽  
pp. 104-116
Author(s):  
Sergey Temchin
Keyword(s):  
English Translation ◽  
Arabic Script ◽  
Sunni Islam ◽  
Grand Duchy Of Lithuania ◽  
Grand Duchy

The author argues that the Ruthenian text known as The Embassy of Isa to Antioch and written using the Arabic script in manuscript kitabs produced by the Tatars of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania is an abbreviated version of a chapter from the Lives of the Prophets by Abu Ishak Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Thalabi (died 1035), the famous Sunni Islam theologian, historian, and mufassir who worked in Nishapur (Northeastern Iran). The Ruthenian text is reproduced in a Latin transliteration alongside the English translation of the corresponding chapter of the Arabic treatise.

scholarly journals Ghazali’s Sufism and Its Influence in Indonesia

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 21
Author(s):  
A Ilyas Ismail ◽  
Badrah Uyuni
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Arabian Peninsula ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
New Method ◽  
Special Place ◽  
Sunni Islam ◽  
Theology And Philosophy

This study aims to describe Ghazali’s sufism and its influences in Southeast Asia, mainly in Indonesia. Al-Ghazali is a renowned Muslim intellectual who has a special place at every Moslem’s heart, especially in Indonesia. He possesses encyclopedic expertise within various disciplines, ranging from fiqh and ulusulfiqh, al-kalam, logic, philosophy, and sufism. Despite his vast expertise, his practices are more well-known in sufism than in Islamic law, theology, and philosophy due to his long journey, exquisite experience, and groundbreaking thinking within the discipline of Sufism. Ghazali developed a new method of thinking within Islamic epistemology, widely known as Irfani epistemology. One of Ghazali’s biggest achievements is that Ghazali is considered successful in integrating between Sufism and the fiqh (sharia) Ghazali demonstrated his intellectual brilliance of integrating both branches of Islamic thinking (between sharia and the essence of Islam). Ghazali’s notable influence and position within the discipline of sufism made him granted the title of “Hujjat al-Islam”.Ghazali’sSufism spreads and influences the development of Sunni Islam not only in the Arabian peninsula but also in Indonesia and Southeast Asia.

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