SUFISM AS ISLAMIC LEGAL HERMENEUTICS: THE VIEWS OF AL-SHĀṬIBĪ (D. 1388) AND ZARRŪQ (D. 1493)
SUFISM AS ISLAMIC LEGAL HERMENEUTICS: THE VIEWS OF AL-SHĀṬIBĪ (D. 1388) AND ZARRŪQ (D. 1493)
Author(s): Abdessamad BelhajSubject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Middle Ages, Islam studies, 13th to 14th Centuries, 15th Century, Philosophy of Law
Published by: Akadémiai Kiadó
Keywords: Sufism; Islamic law; legal hermeneutics; al-Shāṭibī; Zarrūq;
Summary/Abstract: In this paper, I attempt to show that Sufism, with respect to Islamic law, assays to envision a legal interpretation, drawing on the hermeneutic principle of application as well as on the teleological interpretation of law. My contention is that Abū Iṣḥāq al-Shāṭibī (d. 1388) and Abū’l-‘Abbās Aḥmad Zarrūq (d. 1493), the Mālikī scholars I treat in this study, accentuate the legal hermeneutic aspect of Sufism/sharī‘a link. Thus, they rendered deliberative views on how Sufism and law interlace as legal interpretations. By the same token, they recognised a necessary co-existence, and thus pluralist, approach to legal matters.
Journal: Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae
- Issue Year: 65/2012
- Issue No: 4
- Page Range: 445-456
- Page Count: 12
- Language: English
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