The Construction of Knowledge in Islamic Civilization: Qudama B. Ja[Armenian Modifier Letter Left Half Ring]far and His "Kitab al-kharaj wa-sina[Armenian Modifier Letter Left Half Ring]at al-kitaba"

Judd, Steven C.; Heck, Paul L.

doi:10.2307/4132302

Journal of the American Oriental Society

2004

DOI: 10.2307/4132302

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The Construction of Knowledge in Islamic Civilization: Qudama B. Ja[Armenian Modifier Letter Left Half Ring]far and His "Kitab al-kharaj wa-sina[Armenian Modifier Letter Left Half Ring]at al-kitaba"

Steven C. Judd¹,

Paul L. Heck²

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An Epistemic Shift in Islamic Law

Nakissa

2014

Islam Law Soc

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In this article, I combine textual research with ethnographic data collected at al-Azhar and Dār al-ʿUlūm to investigate how the modernization of traditional religious learning has transformed the character of Islamic legal doctrine. I argue that changes in educational techniques have produced a shift in “episteme”. Whereas traditional religious learning was dominated by language-based conceptions of knowledge, modern reforms have reoriented education towards new conceptions modeled on the natural sciences. This transformation has fundamentally altered patterns of legal reasoning, particularly with respect to ijtihād and taqlīd. I use these observations to urge a rethinking of the perspectives on ijtihād and taqlīd that currently structure Western research on Islamic legal history.

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An Epistemic Shift in Islamic Law

Nakissa

2014

Islam Law Soc

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Organizing the Fourth/Tenth Century: Knowledge, Information, Tools

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Weaver

2020

J. Abbasid Stud.

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This paper outlines the rationale behind this Special Issue, problematizing the concept of fourth/tenth-century “Arab encyclopaedism” and advancing new frameworks and points of focus for the analysis of a wide range of activities so far examined under this rubric. In particular, we suggest that, in accordance with the conclusions of several contributors to this volume, greater attention should be paid to developments in the Arabic book that were designed to make texts navigable, such as division into topical chapters, hierarchical chapter-structures and tables of contents. These would more helpfully be understood as part of a longer history whereby books became more easily accessible, and thus useable, for the independent reader. As other contributors stress, it is also more profitable to examine the local, institutional and political circumstances that produced certain kinds of organization, inventory and classification.

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The Construction of Knowledge in Islamic Civilization: Qudama B. Ja[Armenian Modifier Letter Left Half Ring]far and His "Kitab al-kharaj wa-sina[Armenian Modifier Letter Left Half Ring]at al-kitaba"

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