Ismaili School of Law

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  • Regions in which the Ismaili legal school is in the majority - however, most of the followers of the Ismaili legal school live in South Asia
    • The Fatimid Empire (909–1171) at the time of its greatest expansion

    The Ismaili School of Law goes back to Qadi al-Nu'man , who was in the service of the Ismaili dynasty of the Fatimids for a long time . The process of codifying the law began in the reign of the Fatimid caliph al-Mahdi .

    The Ismaili legal system is based on the legal conceptions of the Twelve Shiites and the Shiite direction of the Zaidi and was also influenced by Maliki law .

    The most important source of law was the view of the ruling Imam-Caliph , who had the last word in disagreements. In the case of the Koran - whose interpretation and interpretation of its inner truth was the prerogative of the ruling Imam-Caliph - they distinguish between superficial wording and deeper meaning.

    Al-Nu'man wrote numerous important legal works. In his codification, he relied, among other things, on the works of the Imamite al-Kulaini . The most important surviving work is Da'a'im al-Islam (The Pillars of Islam / The Pillars of Islam), commissioned by the fourth Fatimid imam caliph al-Mu'izz (d. 975). This work became the official codex for the Fatimid state and is the supreme authority on Ismaili law for the Tayyibi Ismailis, including the Ismaili Bohras (Ismaili Bohras) in India .

    Important works

    • Kitab al-idah (only a short fragment preserved)
    • Da'a'im al-Islam . Edition: Cairo: Dar al-Ma'arif, 1951-61; English translation under the title: The Pillars of Islam
    The Pillars of Islam: Volume I: Ibadat: Acts of Devotion and Religious Observances (2002), ISBN 0-19-565535-4 .
    The Pillars of Islam: Volume II: Mu'amalat: Laws Pertaining to Human Intercourse (2004), ISBN 978-0-19-568907-5 .
    • Minhaj al-fara'id . English translation by Agostino Cilardo: The Early History of Ismaili Jurisprudence: Law Under the Fatimids. IB Tauris Publishers in association with The Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2012; ISBN 978-1-78076-129-9
    • Kitab al-iqtisar (a short version of Da'a'im al-Islam )
    • Mukhtasar al-athar

    literature

    • Madelung, W .: "The Sources of Ismāīlī Law", The University of Chicago Press, Journal of Near Eastern Studies , Vol. 35, No. 1 (Jan. 1976), pp. 29-40
    • Poonawala, IK : "Al-Qadi al-Nu'man and Isma'ili Jurisprudence", in: Farhad Daftary: Mediaeval Ismaili History and Thought (Cambridge, 1996)
    • Farhad Daftary : Brief History of the Ismailis. Traditions of a Muslim Community (=  culture, law and politics in Muslim societies . Volume 4 ). Ergon, Würzburg 2003, ISBN 3-89913-292-0 (English: A Short History of the Ismailis . Translated by Kurt Maier).
    • Heinz Halm : The caliphs of Cairo: the Fatimids in Egypt 973-1074 . CH Beck, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-406-48654-1 , p. 245 (508 p., Limited preview in Google Book search).

    Web links

    References and footnotes

    1. ↑ Karl Wulff: Threatened Truth. Islam and modern science . GRIN Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3-640-68535-6 , pp. 69 (229 p., Limited preview in Google Book search).
    2. ↑ Karl Wulff: Threatened Truth. Islam and modern science . GRIN Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3-640-68535-6 , pp. 70 (229 p., Limited preview in Google Book search - see ẓāhir and bāṭin ).
    3. ^ F. Daftary: Brief History of the Ismailis , p. 91
    4. ↑ iis.ac.uk  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - Institute of Ismaili Studies@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.iis.ac.uk