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orig.wrappers. Condition: Minor rubbing. VG. 24x15cm, xii,341 pp., PAPERBACK. Series: Comparative studies on Muslim societies, 16. Textual map & illustrations. (illustrator).

attractive copy, blue cloth, appears little used if at all, some glue bleed through at hinges of endpapers. MASUD, MUHAMMAD KHALID / MESSICK, BRINKLEY MORRIS / POWERS, DAVID STEPHAN. Islamic legal interpretation: muftis and their fatwas. Edited by Muhammad Khalid Masud, Brinkley Messick, David S. Powers. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1996, x, 431pp., . Harvard studies in Islamic law. - CONTENTS: Muftis, fatwas, and Islamic legal interpretation / Muhammad Khalid Masud, Brinkley Messick, David S. Powers -- Ifta' and ijtihad in Sunni legal theory : a developmental account / Wael B. Hallaq -- Learning at mosques in al-Andalus / Manuela Marín -- Caliphal legitimacy and expiation in al-Andalus / Maribel Fierro -- Ibn Taymiyya on leadership in the ritual prayer / Bernard Weiss -- Use and abuse of the law : a mufti's response / Nissreen Haram -- Dhimmi women and mourning / Seth Ward -- The art of the legal opinion : al-Wansharisi on Tawl?ij / David S. Powers -- When women went to mosques : al-Aydini on the duration of assessments / A. Kevin Reinhart --Child marriage in seventeenth-century Palestine / Harald Motzki -- Eleven fetvas of the Ottoman Sheikh ul-Islam 'Abdurrahim / Colin Imber -- The fatwas of condemnation / John Ralph Willis -- Fatvas as asymmetrical dialogues : Muhammad Karim Khan Kirmani and his questioners / Setrag Manoukian -- Sacred space and holy war in India / Juan R.I. Cole -- Two fatwas on Hajj in British India / Barbara D. Metcalf -- Apostasy and judicial separation in British India / Muhammad Kahlid Masud -- Are Wahhabis kafirs? : Ahmad Riza Khan Barelwi and his Sword of the Haramayn / Usha Sanyal -- The lions of Qasr al-Nil Bridge : the Islamic prohibition of images as an issue in the 'Urabi revolt / Rudolph Peters --An argument about how to argue / William R. Roff -- The Council of Indonesian "Ulama" : on Muslims' attendance at Christmas celebrations / Mohamad Atho Mudzhar -- A modern Indian mufti / Gregory C. Kozlowski -- Mut'a : regulating sexuality and gender relations in postrevolutionary Iran / Shahla Haeri -- The complementarity of Ift?a' and Qa??a : three Saudi fatwas on divorce / Frank E. Vogel -- The fatwa as an instrument of accommodation / Aharon Layish -- Postmortem examinations in Egypt / Chibli Mallat -- Operation Desert Storm and the war of fatwas / Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad -- Media muftis : radio fatwas in Yemen / Brinkley Messick. 9780674468702 ISBN 0674468708. …