Comparing Religions Through Law : Judaism and Islam.

By: Neusner, JacobContributor(s): Sonn, TamaraMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: London : Routledge, 1999Copyright date: ©1999Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (276 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780203202678Subject(s): Islamic lawGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Comparing Religions Through Law : Judaism and IslamDDC classification: 296.18 LOC classification: BM520.3 -- .N48 1999ebOnline resources: Click to View
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Book Cover -- Title -- Contents -- Preface -- Comparing Islam and Judaism in particular -- The monotheist religions, Judaism, Christianity, Islam -- Which Judaism, which Islam, and why? -- Category formations: comparing incomparables -- The authoritative legal documents of Judaism and Islam -- The Written and the Oral Torah: scripture, the Mishnah and the Talmuds -- Islamic counterparts -- Conclusions -- The intellectual sources of the law -- Islam: consensus, reasoning, exceptions -- Judaic counterparts: exegesis, logic, argument, dialectics -- Conclusions -- The working of the law: institutions -- The Israelite court system in the legal narrative of Judaism -- The Islamic court in the legal narrative of Islam -- Conclusions -- The working of the law: personnel -- Islam -- Judaism: the sage -- Conclusions -- Disproportions -- Temple law and sacrifice -- Slave laws in Islam and in Judaism -- Sacred time/Sabbath in Judaism and sacred time/pilgrimage in Islam -- Conclusions -- Unique categories -- Enlandisement (Judaism) -- Jerusalem and the lack of enlandisement in Islam -- Jihad (Islam) -- The sage and Torah study in Judaism -- Khilafah and the legal scholars in Islam -- History, time, and paradigm in Judaism -- History in Islam -- Epilogue: the consequences of comparison -- Judaism and Islam: companions in the context of world religions -- Notes -- Index.
Summary: Comparing Religions Through Law offers a ground- breaking study which compares these two religions through shared dominant structures. In the case of Judaism and Islam the dominant structure is law. Comparing Religions Through Law presents an innovative and sometimes controversial study of the comparisons and contrasts between the two religions and offers an example of how comparative religious studies can provide grounds for mutual understanding.
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Book Cover -- Title -- Contents -- Preface -- Comparing Islam and Judaism in particular -- The monotheist religions, Judaism, Christianity, Islam -- Which Judaism, which Islam, and why? -- Category formations: comparing incomparables -- The authoritative legal documents of Judaism and Islam -- The Written and the Oral Torah: scripture, the Mishnah and the Talmuds -- Islamic counterparts -- Conclusions -- The intellectual sources of the law -- Islam: consensus, reasoning, exceptions -- Judaic counterparts: exegesis, logic, argument, dialectics -- Conclusions -- The working of the law: institutions -- The Israelite court system in the legal narrative of Judaism -- The Islamic court in the legal narrative of Islam -- Conclusions -- The working of the law: personnel -- Islam -- Judaism: the sage -- Conclusions -- Disproportions -- Temple law and sacrifice -- Slave laws in Islam and in Judaism -- Sacred time/Sabbath in Judaism and sacred time/pilgrimage in Islam -- Conclusions -- Unique categories -- Enlandisement (Judaism) -- Jerusalem and the lack of enlandisement in Islam -- Jihad (Islam) -- The sage and Torah study in Judaism -- Khilafah and the legal scholars in Islam -- History, time, and paradigm in Judaism -- History in Islam -- Epilogue: the consequences of comparison -- Judaism and Islam: companions in the context of world religions -- Notes -- Index.

Comparing Religions Through Law offers a ground- breaking study which compares these two religions through shared dominant structures. In the case of Judaism and Islam the dominant structure is law. Comparing Religions Through Law presents an innovative and sometimes controversial study of the comparisons and contrasts between the two religions and offers an example of how comparative religious studies can provide grounds for mutual understanding.

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