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The ‘Uqūd rasm al-muftī of Ibn ‘Ābidīn

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2009

Norman Calder
Norman Calder
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Norman Calder (1950–98) was Senior Lecturer in Arabic at the University of Manchester. The author of Studies in early Muslim jurisprudence (Oxford University Press, 1993) and some 30 journal and encyclopaedia articles, he is widely recognized as having been one of the most original and influential scholars of Islamic jurisprudence and hermeneutics.
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John Dryden's ‘Religio laid’, a defence in rhyming couplets of English Protestantism, is not an obvious point of departure for this study of a Muslim poem about juristic authority. There is value however in the comparison for the contrasts that emerge. Dryden's poem first defends Christianity against an Enlightenment Deism, and then situates English Protestantism between the two extremes of Papism and ‘the private spirit’ (‘Occasioned by great zeal and little thought’). Ibn ‘Ābidīn's ‘Chaplets on the mufti's task’, written in the nineteenth century, is a highly condensed version of a conventional academic work of the type sometimes called ‘manuals for muftis’ or adab al-muftī. It aims to inform the professional mufti and the educated jurist of a methodology for the discovery of a rule of law. It speaks of secure authority; very different from the challenged, if triumphant, authority of English Protestantism in the seventeenth century.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 63 , Issue 2 , January 2000 , pp. 215 - 228
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Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 2000

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