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Islamic foundations (waqf, pl. awqāf) have been an integral part of Yemeni society both for managing private wealth and as a legal frame for charity and public infrastructure. This book focuses on four socially grounded fields of legal knowledge: fiqh, codification, individual waqf cases, and everyd...

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spelling oapen-20.500.12657-771092023-11-15T09:17:26Z Waqf in Zaydī Yemen Hovden, Eirik endowments foundations infrastructure Islamic law knowledge legal public trusts zaydism bic Book Industry Communication::L Law::LA Jurisprudence & general issues::LAF Systems of law::LAFS Islamic law bic Book Industry Communication::1 Geographical Qualifiers::1F Asia::1FB Middle East::1FBX Arabian peninsula::1FBXY Yemen Islamic foundations (waqf, pl. awqāf) have been an integral part of Yemeni society both for managing private wealth and as a legal frame for charity and public infrastructure. This book focuses on four socially grounded fields of legal knowledge: fiqh, codification, individual waqf cases, and everyday waqf-related knowledge. It combines textual analysis with ethnography and seeks to understand how Islamic law is approached, used, produced, and validated in selected topics of waqf law where there are tensions between ideals and pragmatic rules. The study analyses central Zaydī fiqh works such as the Sharḥ al-azhār cluster, imamic decrees, fatwās, and waqf documents, mostly from Zaydī, northern Yemen. 2023-10-31T15:45:54Z 2023-10-31T15:45:54Z 2018 book ONIX_20231031_9789004377844_5 9789004377844 9789004377721 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/77109 eng application/pdf n/a 9789004377844.pdf https://brill.com/display/title/38952 Brill 10.1163/9789004377844 10.1163/9789004377844 af16fd4b-42a1-46ed-82e8-c5e880252026 66a22439-fd24-49b7-9ba5-ee440b6b5b21 9789004377844 9789004377721 [...] open access
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description Islamic foundations (waqf, pl. awqāf) have been an integral part of Yemeni society both for managing private wealth and as a legal frame for charity and public infrastructure. This book focuses on four socially grounded fields of legal knowledge: fiqh, codification, individual waqf cases, and everyday waqf-related knowledge. It combines textual analysis with ethnography and seeks to understand how Islamic law is approached, used, produced, and validated in selected topics of waqf law where there are tensions between ideals and pragmatic rules. The study analyses central Zaydī fiqh works such as the Sharḥ al-azhār cluster, imamic decrees, fatwās, and waqf documents, mostly from Zaydī, northern Yemen.
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