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Page iii The Search For God's Law Islamic Jurisprudence in the Writings of Sayf al-Din al-Amidi Bernard G. Weiss University of Utah Press Salt Lake City

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title	:	The Search for God's Law : Islamic Jurisprudence in the Writings of Sayf Al-Din Al-Amidi
author	:	Weiss, Bernard G.
publisher	:	University of Utah Press
isbn10 | asin	:	087480356X
print isbn13	:	9780874803563
ebook isbn13	:	9780585128894
language	:	English
subject	Islamic law--Interpretation and construction, Islam and state, amidi, li ibn Abi li,--1156 or 7-1233.
publication date	:	1992
lcc	:	BP144.W45 1992eb
ddc	:	340.5/9
subject	:	Islamic law--Interpretation and construction, Islam and state, amidi, li ibn Abi li,--1156 or 7-1233.

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Page vii CONTENTS Preface xix Introduction 1 The Sharica as a body of categorizations of human acts (al-ahkamal-sharciya), 1 The Sharica as law and as morality, 3 The emphasis upon the Sharica as law in this book, 7 The Sharica as exhortation, 9 Non-normative categories of the Sharica, 10 The articulation of the Sharica as a human task, 13 Fiqh and usulal-fiqh, 14 The approach to the study of Islamic jurisprudence taken in this book, 17 The historical development of Islamic jurisprudence, 17 Amidi's place within that development, 21 Aristotelian influence on Amidi, 23 Amidi's definitions of fiqh and usulal-fiqh, 24 The subject matter, topics, postulates, and end of the science of jurisprudence, 27 Amidi's life, 28 Part I. Postulates 31 Chapter One. The Theological Postulates 33 Epistemology/methodology and substantive theology as the two facets of kalam, 33 Epistemological/methodologicalpostulates, 35 Knowledge and its types, 35 The reasoning process, 41 Dalil (proof, indicator) as an instrument of reasoning, 42

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