Khaled Abou El Fadl - Rebellion and Violence in Islamic Law Cambridge 2001.pdf

REBELLION AND VIOLENCE
IN ISLAMIC LAW
Khaled Abou El Fadl’s book represents the first systematic exami-
nation of the idea and treatment of political resistance and rebellion
in Islamic jurists produced an extensive and sophis-
ticated discourse on the legality of rebellion and the treatment due
to rebels under Islamic law. The book examines the emergence and
development of these discourses from the eighth to the fifteenth cen-
turies, and considers juristic responses to the various terror-inducing
strategies employed by rebels including assassination, stealth at-
tacks, and rape. The study demonstrates how Muslim jurists went
about restructuring peting doctrinal sources in order to
construct a highly technical discourse on rebellion. It also points
to the ways in which they negotiated language, historical events,
and religious doctrine to arrive at certain legal positions. Many
of these rulings have been developed in response to challenges in
Islam’s history and e to influence contemporary Islamic
practices. This is an important and challenging book which sheds
light on Islamic law and premodern attitudes to dissidence and
violence.
KHALED ABOU EL FADL is an Acting Professor at the University
of California Los Angeles School of Law. His publications include
Speaking in God’s Name: Islamic Law, Authority and Women (2001).
REBELLION AND VIOLENCE
IN ISLAMIC LAW
KHALED ABOU EL FADL
University of California Los Angeles
School of Law
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