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Rebellion and Violence in Islamic Law by Khaled Abou El Fadl is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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.

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Author

Khaled Abou El Fadl

Publisher

Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9781107321373

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Law, Islam, History