Composed in the 12th century by the leading Muslim jurist Burhan al-Din al-Marghinani, the original Arabic al-Hidayah remains a central text of Islamic personal law. This English translation, from a Persian version of the work, was prepared by the orientalist Charles Hamilton fo…
"The peasants' loss of property rights as interpreted in the Hanafite legal literature of the Mamluk and Ottoman periods."
"The peasants' loss of property rights as interpreted in the Hanafite legal literature of the Mamluk and Ottoman periods."
This text proposes that late Hanafi legal scholarship in the early modern period secured a role for the Ottoman sultanic authority in the process of lawmaking. It demonstrates that Hanafi jurists sustained and expanded Ottoman sultanic authority through careful reformulations of…
