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Rebellion and Violence in Islamic Law »

Authors: Khaled M. Abou El Fadl, Khaled Abou El Fadl
ISBN-13: 9780521793117, ISBN-10: 0521793114
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: November 2001
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Khaled M. Abou El Fadl

Khaled Abou El Fadl is an Acting Professor at the University of California Los Angeles law school. His publications include The Search for Authority in Modern Islam (forthcoming).

Book Synopsis

The first systematic treatment of political resistance and rebellion in Islamic law.

	Preface and acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
1	Modern scholarship and reorienting the approach to rebellion	8
2	The doctrinal foundations of the laws of rebellion	32
3	The historical context and the creative response	62
4	The rise of the juristic discourse on rebellion: fragmentation	100
5	The spread of the Islamic law of rebellion from the fourth/tenth to the fifth/eleventh centuries	162
6	Rebellion, insurgency, and brigandage: the developed positions and the emergence of trends	234
7	The developed non-Sunni positions	295
8	Negotiating rebellion in Islamic law	321
	Works cited	343
	Index of names	372
	Index of subjects	378