Rebellion and violence in Islamic law

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Title:

Rebellion and violence in Islamic law

Author:

Abou El Fadl, Khaled, 1963-

ISBN:

9780521030571

Personal Author:

Abou El Fadl, Khaled, 1963-

Publication Information:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Physical Description:

xii, 391 pages ; 24 cm

General Note:

Originally published: 2001.

Contents:

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

Subject Term:

Revolutions (Islamic law)

Political crimes and offenses (Islamic law)

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Summary

Khaled Abou El Fadl's book represents the first systematic examination of the idea and treatment of political resistance and rebellion in Islamic law. Pre-modern jurists produced an extensive and sophisticated discourse on the legality of rebellion and the treatment due to rebels under Islamic law. The book examines the emergence and development of these discourses from the eighth to the fifteenth centuries and considers juristic responses to the various terror-inducing strategies employed by rebels including assassination, stealth attacks and rape. The study demonstrates how Muslim jurists went about restructuring several competing doctrinal sources in order to construct a highly technical discourse on rebellion. Indeed many of these rulings may have a profound influence on contemporary practices. This is an important and challenging book which sheds light on the complexities of Islamic law and pre-modern attitudes to dissidence and rebellion.