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Just as the Ibāḍī literature that is now available provides us with a rich body of evidence that can reshape our understanding of Islamic political discourse, similarly, the Ibāḍī legal literature discussed in this chapter offers scholars of Islamic studies new insight and new clues about the development of legal discourse. As one of the first to rely on this new body of evidence, this work is bound to have its limitations and shortcomings. For this reason, I have included as much translation of original texts as space allows. I hope that other interested students of Islamic civilization will continue to look at this heritage in order to help provide the public with a fuller, more inclusive picture of the key institutions and ideas of Islamic civilization throughout its history.
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The synergy between political and religious authority and the conflict that it created are well documented in Arabic and English sources. For an idea about the role of the caliphs in defining orthodoxy and heresy, see, Ann K. S. Lambton, State and Government in Medieval Islam (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981), 41.
Lamin al-Naji, al-Qadim wa-‘l-jadīd fi fiqh al-shafī (Cairo: Dar Ibn Affan, 2007), 1:48, 2:36–7.
Lamin al-Naji, al-Qadīm wa-‘l-jadid fi fiqh al-shafi’ī (Cairo: Dar Ibn ‘Affan, 2007), 1:51.
See, for example, Yahya Hashim Hassan Farghal, al-Firaq al-Islāmiyyah fi al-mīzān (Cairo: Dar al-Afaq al-Arabiyyah, 2007),
Muhammad Hassan Bakhit, al-Firaq al-qadimah wa-l-muāşirah (Cairo: Maktabat Afaq li-l-tiba’ah wa-l-nashr wa-l-tawzi’, 2006),
Salah Abū al-Su’ud, al-Marja’ al-kāmil fi alfiraq wa-’l-jamā’āt wa-l-madhāhib al-islāmiyyah (Cairo: Maktabat al-nafidhah, 2005),
and Muhammad Ibn Abdul Karim al-Shahristani, Muslim Sects and Divisions (London: Kegan Paul International, 1983).
Abdullah Ibn Hamid l-Salimi, Tal’at al-shams (Oman: Wizarat al-Turath al-Oawmi. 1985). 1:26.
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Souaiaia, A.E. (2013). Islamic Law and Jurisprudence Reconsidered. In: Anatomy of Dissent in Islamic Societies. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137379115_4
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