The Rise of Critical Islam: 10th-13th Century Legal Debate

by Youcef Soufi

In a richly narrated historical study, Youcef Soufi excavates an Islamic legal culture of critique from the 10th to 13th centuries. Focusing on the practice of munāẓara (disputation), Soufi explores how and why oral debates became a pervasive and revered part of the intellectual legal landscape of Iraq and Persia. Using the life and career of celebrated Iraqi jurist Abū Isḥāq al-Shīrāzī, he traces the formalization...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197685005
• ISBN13: 9780197685006
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.3" x 9.0"