CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2014
| Author | Khan, Aamir Shahzada |
|---|---|
| Title | Multaqa al-Abhur of Ibrahim al-Halabi (d. 1549): A Hanafi Legal Text in Its Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Context |
| Summary | This thesis is about Multaqā al-Abḥur, a compendium (mukhtaṣar) on Ḥanafī law produced by an Ottoman scholar Ibrahīm al-Ḥalabī (d. 1549). The Multaqā became the most widely-used legal compendiumin the Ottoman Empire in the centuries after its production. I have argued that the Multaqā wields authority because of the fact that it comprehensively combines the most authoritative texts on Ḥanafī Law. Moreover, the Multaqā mentions differences of opinion within the Ḥanafī legal school and hence creates the possibility of adapting law to changing social and temporal contexts. Therefore the adoption of the Multaqā served two important purposes for the Ottoman Empire: (a) invocation of the authority of the Ḥanafī tradition to gain legitimacy for the judicial system and (b) provision of a text containing pragmatic legal solutions to serve the goal of good governance in a culturally diverse empire. |
| Supervisor | Krstić, Tijana |
| Department | Medieval Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2014/khan_aamir.pdf |
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