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Islam and Literalism: Literal Meaning and Interpretation in Islamic Legal Theory

Literal Meaning and Interpretation in Islamic Legal Theory

In this reading of Islamic legal hermeneutics, Robert Gleave explores various competing notions of literal meaning, linked to both theological doctrine and historical developments, together with insights from modern semantic and pragmatic philosophers. Literal meaning is what a text means in itself, regardless of what its author intends to convey or the reader understands to be its message. As Islamic law is based on the central texts of Islam, the idea of a literal meaning that rules over human attempts to understand God's message has resulted in a series of debates amongst modern Muslim legal theorists.

It is not necessarily germane to my purpose here to rehearse the arguments
which have dominated the field of early Islamic legal studies.1 It is important to
note, however, that prior to the writings of al-ShÁfiÝÐ, there is very little evidence
of any explicit interest in legal theory. By this I mean that the extant texts of early
Islamic jurisprudence contain many references to and refutations of the opinions
of the great scholars of the early period, but there is little discernible systematic
concern ...

Pakistan, Islam, and Economics

Failure of Modernity

It's a pioneering effort to present a comprehensive view of the issues involved, from riba to the status of women in Islam.

It is whether modaraba type financing would dispense with interest as we know it
in modern times. The Islamic economists often point out that there is no
consensus about the theory of interest among the neoclassical economists. What
determines interest rate and which theory best explains the phenomenon is not
the real issue. There is the well-known Keynesian approach to interest rate, and
there are the nonmonetary theories which make an attempt to explain the
phenomenon.

Islam and the Secular State

What should be the place of Shari'a - Islamic religious law - in predominantly Muslim societies of the world? In this book, a Muslim scholar and human rights activist envisions a positive and sustainable role for Shari'a, based on a profound rethinking of the relationship between religion and the secular state in all societies.

Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im Na, ʻAbd Allāh Aḥmad Naʻīm. CHAPTER. 3.
Constitutionalism,. Human. Rights,. and. Citizenship. In this chapter I will discuss
constitutionalism, human rights, and citizenship as an integrated framework for
regulating the practical way secularism works to negotiate the tension between
the religious neutrality of the state and the connectedness of Islam and public
policy. Constitutionalism provides a legal and political framework for realizing
and ...

A People's History of the European Court of Human Rights

The exceptionality of America's Supreme Court has long been conventional wisdom. But the United States Supreme Court is no longer the only one changing the landscape of public rights and values. Over the past thirty years, the European Court of Human Rights has developed an ambitious, American-style body of law. Unheralded by the mass press, this obscure tribunal in Strasbourg, France has become, in many ways, the Supreme Court of Europe. Michael Goldhaber introduces American audiences to the judicial arm of the Council of Europe--a group distinct from the European Union, and much larger--whose mission is centered on interpreting the European Convention on Human Rights. The Council routinely confronts nations over their most culturally-sensitive, hot-button issues. It has stared down France on the issue of Muslim immigration; Ireland on abortion; Greece on Greek Orthodoxy; Turkey on Kurdish separatism; Austria on Nazism; and Britain on gay rights and corporal punishment. And what is most extraordinary is that nations commonly comply. In the battle for the world's conscience, Goldhaber shows how the court in Strasbourg may be pulling ahead.

But this photo is a collector's item; it shows the militant secularist, who banned
Muslim headwear, standing beside a turbaned imam. According to the caption,
Ataturk is thanking Allah for Turkey's military successes. “We are not an Islamist
party,” Kazan is saying to me, as the call to prayer from the mosque attached to
his party headquarters wafts through the corridors. “We are a party struggling
against the oppression of Muslim people.” Kazan's semantic point is
unpersuasive; His party ...

The Columbia Documentary History of Religion in America Since 1945

This unique documentary history brings together manifestos, Supreme Court decisions, congressional testimonies, speeches, articles, book excerpts, pastoral letters, interviews, song lyrics, memoirs, and poems reflecting the vitality, diversity, and changing nature of religious belief and practice in America since 1945. Covering both the center and the margins of American religious life, these documents reflect the role of religion and theology in the civil rights, feminist, and gay rights movements as well as in the conservative responses to these. Issues regarding religion and contemporary American culture are explored in documents about the rise of the evangelical movement and the religious right; the impact of "new" (post-1965) immigrant communities on the religious landscape; the popularity of alternative, New Age, and non-Western beliefs; and the relationship between religion and popular culture. The editors conclude with selections exploring major themes of American religious life at the millennium as well as excerpts that speculate on the future of religion in the United States.

The concept of human rights in Islam is based on two important principles: dignity
of human beings and justice. Islam emphasizes that all human beings are
honored by Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Allah wants all human beings to live in
peace and harmony and for this reason He wants us to establish justice in this
world. Without justice there is no dignity and without dignity and justice there
cannot be any peace. There are four important principles that we must keep in
mind when ...

The case-book of Sherlock Holmes

The last twelve stories written about Holmes and Watson, these tales reflect the disillusioned world of the 1920s in which they were written. Some of the sharpest turns of wit in English literature are contrasted by dark images of psychological tragedy, suicide, and incest in a collection oftales that have haunted generations of readers.

Ulysses on the Liffey

An interpretation of Joyce's masterpiece which illuminates its philosophical and literary significance

An interpretation of Joyce's masterpiece which illuminates its philosophical and literary significance The author of one of the greatest of modern biographies lucidly disentwines the narrative, ethical, aesthetic, and ultimate levels of ...

ULYSSES in Progress

The publication of James Joyce's Ulysses crowned years of writing and constant rewriting at almost every stage, so that as many as ten versions exist for some pages. To understand how Joyce worked, Michael Groden traces the book's history in detail, synthesizing evidence from notebooks, drafts, manuscripts, typescripts, and proofs. Originally published in 1977. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions.

An Expedition to the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah

Including a Description of Its Geography, Natural History and Minerals, and an Analysis of Its Waters, with an Authentic Account of the Mormon Settlement

An illustrated account of a two-year surveying expedition to Salt Lake City, published in 1852, including positive comments on Mormonism.

Returning to the southern end of the valley, we again struck the Muddy, and
followed it up to where it forks, amid the hills forming the “ divide” from Ogden's
Hole. The eastern fork makes an impassable cafion, but we followed up the west
fork about four miles, whence we crossed the Wahsatch range, and descended
into a beautiful, level, circular valley, about a mile in diameter, hemmed in by an
amphitheatre of lofty and steep mountains. Several fine springs head in this
singular little ...