Body of Text: The Emergence of the Sunni Law of Ritual PurityRitual purity is one of the least understood aspects of Islamic law and practice, yet it enjoys a prominent place in traditional legal texts and permeates the daily life of ordinary believers. Body of Text examines the emergence and crystallization of the law of ritual purity, using early sources to reconstruct the formative debates among Muslim scholars. The lively interaction among legal theorizing, caliphal politics, and popular practice illustrates the formation of the law, because as scholars strove for synthesis, they advanced competing understandings of the underlying structure and meaning of ritual purity. Katz demonstrates that no single theory can adequately interpret the diversity of opinion within the tradition. |
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Page 15 - Such substances are ambiguous in the most fundamental way. The child's first and continuing problem is to determine the initial boundary. “What am I, as against the world?” “Where is the edge of me?” In this fundamental sense, faeces, urine, semen, and so forth, are both me and not me.
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| Title | Body of Text: The Emergence of the Sunni Law of Ritual Purity SUNY series in Medieval Middle East History SUNY series in Medieval Middle East History Suny Series in Tantric Studies |
| Author | Marion Holmes Katz |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | SUNY Press, 2002 |
| ISBN | 0791453812, 9780791453810 |
| Length | 275 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / Middle East / General Religion / Islam / Rituals & Practice Religion / Islam / Sunni |
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