Universität Wien

141196 SE Texts from Arab-Islamic Tradition (2021W)

8.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 14 - Orientalistik, Afrikanistik, Indologie und Tibetologie
Continuous assessment of course work
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Details

max. 24 participants
Language: German

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

UPDATE: Due the lockdown announced on November 11th, we will move our meetings online. Please use the link to BigBlueButton (BBB) provided on Moodle to join our sessions on Wednesday, 24 November, and Wednesday, 1 December 2021.

  • Wednesday 13.10. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal d. Inst. f. Orientalistik UniCampus 1F-O1-3842
  • Wednesday 20.10. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal d. Inst. f. Orientalistik UniCampus 1F-O1-3842
  • Wednesday 27.10. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal d. Inst. f. Orientalistik UniCampus 1F-O1-3842
  • Wednesday 03.11. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal d. Inst. f. Orientalistik UniCampus 1F-O1-3842
  • Wednesday 10.11. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal d. Inst. f. Orientalistik UniCampus 1F-O1-3842
  • Wednesday 17.11. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal d. Inst. f. Orientalistik UniCampus 1F-O1-3842
  • Wednesday 24.11. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal d. Inst. f. Orientalistik UniCampus 1F-O1-3842
  • Wednesday 01.12. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal d. Inst. f. Orientalistik UniCampus 1F-O1-3842
  • Wednesday 15.12. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal d. Inst. f. Orientalistik UniCampus 1F-O1-3842
  • Wednesday 12.01. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal d. Inst. f. Orientalistik UniCampus 1F-O1-3842
  • Wednesday 19.01. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal d. Inst. f. Orientalistik UniCampus 1F-O1-3842
  • Wednesday 26.01. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal d. Inst. f. Orientalistik UniCampus 1F-O1-3842

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Aims, contents and method of the course

UPDATE: Due the lockdown announced on November 11th, we will move our meetings online. Please use the link to BigBlueButton (BBB) provided on Moodle to join our sessions on Wednesday, 24 November, and Wednesday, 1 December 2021.

The aim of this seminar is to introduce students to the field of Islamic jurisprudence by way of a close reading of excerpts from Ibn Rushd’s (d. 595/1198) Bidāyat al-mujtahid wa-nihāyat al-muqtaṣid. This will allow us to introduce major questions in the field of uṣūl al-fiqh (i.e. legal methodology and hermeneutics), as well as the so-called furūʿ, i.e. “substantive law”, that is the legal norms of different “schools” or positions of prominent jurists of the formative and classical periods. Our reading of the Bidāya will be supplemented by readings from other sources where necessary (e.g. Ibn Rushd’s commentary on Ghazālī’s Mustaṣfā as well as excerpts from legal manuals of the Mālikī, Ḥanafī and Shāfiʿī schools). We will aim to situate the Bidāya in the broader historical framework of the intellectual and legal history of the premodern Islamic world, as well as the specific context of the Iberian peninsula under the Almohads in the 6th/11th century.

Assessment and permitted materials

1 presentation, 1 final paper, as well as active participation in class (including preparing the text for translation)

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

intermediate to advanced knowledge of Arabic

Examination topics

Assessment will be by way of participation, class presentation and final paper. There is no separate examination.

Reading list

Dominique Urvoy, Ibn Rushd (Averroes), trans. Olivia Stewart (London: Routledge, 1991).

Majid Fakhry, Averroes (Ibn Rushd): His Life, Works and Influence (Oxford: Oneworld, 2001).

Roger Arnaldez, Averroes: A Rationalist in Islam, trans. David Streight (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2000).

Jacques Langhade & Dominique Mallet, “Droit et philosophie au XIIe siècle dans al-Andalus: Averroes (Ibn Rušd)” in Revue de l’Occident musulman et de la Méditerranée, vol. 40 (1985), pp. 103-121.

Yasin Dutton, “The Introduction to Ibn Rushd’s Bidāyat al-mujtahid,” in Islamic Law and Society, vol. 1, no. 2 (1994), pp. 188-205.

Robert Brunschvig, “Averroès Juriste,” in Études d’Orientalism dédiées à la memoire de Lévi-Provençal (Paris: Maisonneuve, 1962), vol. 1, pp. 35-68.

Abdel Magid Turki, “La place d’Averroès juriste dans l’histoire du malikisme et de l’Espagne musulmane,” in Théologiens et jurists de l’Espagne musulmane: Aspects polémiques (Paris: Maisonneuve, 1982), pp. 283-293.

Maribel Fierro, “The legal Policies of the Almohad Caliphs and Ibn Rushd’s Bidāyat al-mujtahid,” in Journal of Islamic Studies, vol. 10, no. 3 (1999), pp. 226-248.

Association in the course directory

RP-2, WM-19

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