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Islamic Law and Culture, 1600-1840

This study of Islamic law in the final phase of its pre-modern period of existence is based mainly on the fatwa collections of two prominent Arab jurists and one Turkish jurist from this period. The book re-examines the basic methodological structure of Islamic law (including its complex relations with the state) and poses the question as to whether Islamic law became increasingly closed and rigid. It was found that no such closure ever took place. The book will be of importance to those interested in Islamic law, as well as to those interested in Islamic thought in general and the relations between society and the state. Readership: All those interested in Islamic law, the Middle East under the Ottomans, Islam and civil society, Islam and the state.

SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION This study was undertaken in an attempt to build
a general picture of Islamic law in the last phase of its existence as part of
classical Islam properly speaking (the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries). This
was done on the basis of the work of three major muftis who lived in this period —
Ebu Suud Efendi, the sixteenth-century Ottoman §eyhiilislam; the seventeenth-
century Palestinian mufti Khayr al-DTn al-RamlT; and the early nineteenth-
century ...