Wael B. Hallaq is a scholar of Islamic law, and this Cambridge University Press book is his academic study of how legal authority actually worked within the Islamic legal tradition, including the role of the mufti, the relationship between muftis and the established legal schools, and the reasoning behind why an individual fatwa binds no one beyond its asker. Its strength is close engagement with the classical Islamic legal literature to explain the tradition's own internal logic of authority, rather than importing an external, state-centered model of law that does not fit how Islamic legal opinion actually functioned. Its limit is that it is a study of legal theory and institutional practice specifically, so a claim about the substantive content of one legal school's rulings on a particular question needs a source addressing that school's own jurisprudence.
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AuthorWael B. Hallaq
PublisherCambridge University Press
Publication Year2001
URLhttps://archive.org/details/authoritycontinu0000hall
Source Typeacademic monograph
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Published by Cambridge University Press as Wael B. Hallaq's academic study of Islamic legal authority, peer reviewed university press scholarship. NotesOn the working of legal authority: the mufti, the muftis' relationship to the schools, and why a fatwa binds nobody.
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This source backs 36 claims across the atlas. As facts: 25 well-attested. As cited relationships: 5 holds. Plus 6 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Religious Roles & Titles, 14 claims: 10 well-attested, 1 holds, 3 general references.
- Sources, 8 claims: 8 well-attested.
- Doctrines, 7 claims: 1 well-attested, 4 holds, 2 general references.
- Articles, 4 claims: 4 well-attested.
- Schools of Religious Law, 3 claims: 2 well-attested, 1 general references.
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