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Chapter 15 - Alms Tax (Zakāt) in Shīʿī Law

Selections from the Jāmiʿ al-Shatāt of Nuṣrat Amīn (d. 1403/1983)

from Part II - Islamic Jurisprudence (Fiqh) and Related Genres

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2024

By
Maryam Rutner
Edited by
Omar Anchassi  and
Robert Gleave
Omar Anchassi
Affiliation:
Universität Bern, Switzerland
Robert Gleave
Affiliation:
University of Exeter
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Summary

This chapter explores questions of obligatory charity (zakāt) in the legal miscellany-work, Jāmiʿ al-Shatāt, of the female Iranian jurist Nuṣrat Amīn (d. 1403/1983). The author’s remarkable career and the esteem she enjoyed among fellow (male) jurists are discussed, along with the nature of her legal authority. The passage excerpted in this chapter is representative of the character of the book in question: it examines the proofs of the rules of law (fiqh), typically first presenting previous opinions on a given question or topic, then evaluating the reasons, explanations, rules or rationales (dalīl or aṣl) for each of these opinions in respect to the primary sources.

Keywords

Independent legal interpretation (ijtihād)Alms-tax (zakāt)Seminary (ḥawza)Seminary students (ṭullāb)Legal rationale (dalīl/aṣl)TaxationLiving expenses (muʾna)Tenth-tax on land (ʿushr).
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Islamic Law in Context
A Primary Source Reader
 , pp. 162 - 177
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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