Author : Christopher Melchert
Release : 1992
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Book Synopsis The Formation of the Sunni Schools of Law, Ninth-tenth Centuries. C.E. by : Christopher Melchert
Download or read book The Formation of the Sunni Schools of Law, Ninth-tenth Centuries. C.E. written by Christopher Melchert. This book was released on 1992. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sunni schools of law are named for various jurisprudents of the 8th and 9th centuries CE, but I show that they did not actually function so early. On the on e hand, that is, jurisprudents at that time were identified mainly not with the later schools but with the two great parties of ra'y and hadith; on the other ha nd, such schools as there were lacked crucial elements of the schools as we know them from the 11th century onwards, above all their regular means of forming st udents. Relying mainly on biographical dictionaries, I trace back the constituti ve elements of the classical school and find that they first came together with the work of Ibn Surayj (d. 306/918), who virtually founded the Shafi'i school. T he new form spread rapidly during the 10th century. Meanwhile, Abu Bakr al-Khall al (d. 311/923) virtually founded the classical Hanbali school. The traditionali zation of Hanafi jurisprudence was completed about the same time, and Hanafi jur isprudents began to produce commentaries. Their development of a regular teachin g method finally culminated in the work of al-Karkhi (d. 340/952). The history o f Malikism in the West is bound up with politics. The Maliki, Zahiri, and Jariri schools of Baghdad were alternative attempts at a rationalistic jurisprudence t hat would yet be acceptable to the traditionalists. For reasons I discuss, none endured past the early 1000's.
