Waqf in Zaydī Yemen
Legal Theory, Codification, and Local Practice
dc.contributor.author | Hovden, Eirik | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-10-31T15:45:54Z | |
dc.date.available | 2023-10-31T15:45:54Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2018 | |
dc.identifier | ONIX_20231031_9789004377844_5 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/77109 | |
dc.description.abstract | 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. | |
dc.language | English | |
dc.subject.classification | bic Book Industry Communication::L Law::LA Jurisprudence & general issues::LAF Systems of law::LAFS Islamic law | |
dc.subject.classification | bic Book Industry Communication::1 Geographical Qualifiers::1F Asia::1FB Middle East::1FBX Arabian peninsula::1FBXY Yemen | |
dc.subject.other | endowments | |
dc.subject.other | foundations | |
dc.subject.other | infrastructure | |
dc.subject.other | Islamic law | |
dc.subject.other | knowledge | |
dc.subject.other | legal | |
dc.subject.other | public | |
dc.subject.other | trusts | |
dc.subject.other | zaydism | |
dc.title | Waqf in Zaydī Yemen | |
dc.title.alternative | Legal Theory, Codification, and Local Practice | |
dc.type | book | |
oapen.identifier.doi | 10.1163/9789004377844 | |
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oapen.relation.isFundedBy | 66a22439-fd24-49b7-9ba5-ee440b6b5b21 | |
oapen.relation.isbn | 9789004377844 | |
oapen.relation.isbn | 9789004377721 | |
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