On Taqlid: Ibn al Qayyim's Critique of Authority in Islamic Law
On Taqlid: Ibn al Qayyim's Critique of Authority in Islamic Law
Abdul-Rahman Mustafa
Oxford University Press, 2013, 256 pp. ISBN: 9780199937516
Walid Ghali
 
On Taqlid (Legal conformism) by 'Abdul-Rahman Mustafa includes a lucid translation of an important extract on imitation from the book I'lam al-muwaqqi'in 'an Rabb al-'Alamin, by the thirteenth-century Islamic scholar, Ibn Qayyim al Jawziyya (d. 751/1350). Mustafa argues that “it is remarkable that, despite the seminal importance of this text by Ibn al-Qayyim, which ranks as one of the most significant works on Islamic legal theory ever written, it has not been the subject of much commentary or discussion in any European language.”

 


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