This book explores the ways in which Muslim communities across the Indian Ocean world produced and shaped Islamic law and its texts, ideas and practices in their local, regional, imperial, national and transregional contexts.0With a focus on the production and transmission of Is…
Analysing the spread and survival of Islamic legal ideas and commentaries in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean littorals, Islamic Law in Circulation focuses on Shāfiʻīsm, one of the four Sunnī schools of Islamic law. It explores how certain texts shaped, transformed…
"The journeys of Islamic legal texts and ideas across the worlds of the Indian Ocean and the Eastern Mediterranean form the fulcrum of this book. With a focus on the Shāfiʻī school of Islamic law, it observes how and why the texts shaped, transformed, influenced and negotiated t…
"The journeys of Islamic legal texts and ideas across the worlds of the Indian Ocean and the Eastern Mediterranean form the fulcrum of this book. With a focus on the Shāfiʻī school of Islamic law, it observes how and why the texts shaped, transformed, influenced and negotiated t…
Malabar is a crucial place in the Indian Ocean world, but its historical diversity is largely unexplored. Unlike the existing studies that rely heavily on European sources, Malabar in the Indian Ocean calls the attention of researchers to the rich trove of unknown or underutiliz…