Encyclopedia of Islamic Law (Kuwait)

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The Kuwaiti Encyclopedia of Islamic Law ( Arabic الموسوعة الفقهية, DMG al-mausūʿa al-fiqhiyya ; English Encyclopaedia of Islamic Jurisprudence ) is the encyclopedia of Islamic jurisprudence ( fiqh ) published by the Kuwaiti Ministry of Religious Foundations and Islamic Affairs . The 45 volumes were first published by the end of the 1990s. At the beginning of the 21st century the work was reprinted several times.

History and purpose

The common wish for an encyclopedia of Islamic jurisprudence was formulated at the international congress on Islamic law ( Semaine de droit musulman ) in Paris from July 2 to 7, 1951. Professors from Syria and Egypt also took part in this congress. The project was initially funded by the Syrian government and was decisively promoted during the time of the United Arab Republic 1958–1961 by Gamal Abdel Nasser an der Azhar and the Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs , but has not yet been completed.

In 1968 a corresponding commission was set up at the Kuwaiti Ministry of Religious Foundations and Islamic Affairs and continued under the supervision of the Syrian scholar Mustafa az-Zarqa (1904–1999), professor at Damascus University and the University of Jordan in Amman . The resulting encyclopedia is now considered a work of the century in the field of Islamic jurisprudence. It took ten years to translate the 45 volumes in Urdu . This version for Muslim readers in India was published on October 23, 2009 in the presence of Indian Vice President Mohammad Hamid Ansari .

The intention of the author is to provide a clear guide to laypeople in the set of rules of religious life as a Muslim, which are ultimately only accessible to scholars (due to its complexity) . Like the very widespread work ʿAbd ar-Raḥmān al-Jazīris, it contains the views of the four Sunni teaching directions still practiced today , i.e. H. Hanafiya , Malikiyah , Schāfi'īya and Hanbalīya . In contrast to the Nasser encyclopedia, however, it does not take into account the Ibadis , the Shiite schools of law, or the Sunni disciplines that have disappeared again in the course of Islamic legal history , such as those of Auzāʿī or Ṭabarī .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andreas Neumann: Legal History, Legal Findings and Legal Training in Islam . Publishing house Dr. Kovac, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-8300-5142-8 , pp. 114-122 .
  2. ↑ Andreas Neumann: Legal History, Legal Findings and Legal Training in Islam . Publishing house Dr. Kovac, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-8300-5142-8 , pp. 123-141 .
  3. ↑ Scholar of renown: Professor Mustafa Al-Zarqa
  4. ↑ a b Milli Gazette, 16.-30. November 2009, p. 3
  5. ↑ Islamic Jurisprudence According To The Four Sunni Schools Al Fiqh 'ala Al Madhahib Al Arba'ah . ( archive.org [accessed August 3, 2019]).
  6. ^ Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs, State of Kuwait