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APIS301 Islamic Law: Legal Tradition and Society
10 cp
Prerequisites APIS100 Introduction to Islam and 10 cp at 200-level APIS unit
Teaching Organisation Lectures, videos, workshops, seminar presentations/discussions.
This unit is devoted to the origins and development of Islamic law. It will explore the institutional background of this system together with the formation of legal sources and argumentation. Fundamental concepts in Islamic law will be re-evaluated, and jurists efforts to derive legal rules from the texts and the notion of ijtihad (legal opinion) will be discussed in detail. The relation between the rules of jurisprudence and practice will be analysed in the light of the different approaches of the various legal schools of thought. The unit will also consider the meaning of Islamic jurisprudence in the modern world, together with the practices in different Muslim countries.
