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ORIENS: JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY, THEOLOGY AND SCIENCE IN ISLAMIC SOCIETIES

ORIENS
Founded by Hellmut Ritter in 1948

CONTENTS

Rationalist Disciplines and Postclassical Islamic Legal Theories

Rationalist Disciplines and Postclassical Islamic Legal Theories: Introduction

Asad Q. Ahmed and Robert Gleave 1
From Legal Theory to Erkenntnistheorie: Ibn Taymiyya on Tawātur as the Ultimate
Guarantor of Human Cognition
Carl Sharif El-Tobgui 6
Al-Samarqandī’s Third Masʾala: Juridical Dialectic Governed by the Ādāb al-Baḥth
Walter Edward Young 62
Underdetermination in Late Postclassical Ḥanafī Legal Theories
Asad Q. Ahmed 129
Debating the Imperative Mood in Uṣūl al-Fiqh: Collective Deliberation and Legal
Validity
Omar Farahat
Explicitly Said or Only Implied? The Development of the manṭūq / mafhūm
Dichotomy in Islamic Legal Hermeneutics
Nora Kalbarczyk
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ORIENS
Customary Practices as Exigencies in Islamic Law: Between a Source of Law
and a Legal Maxim
Journal of PHILOSOPHY,
Ahmed Fekry Ibrahim 222
THEOLOGY and SCIENCE
in ISLAMIC SOCIETIES
VOL. 46 NOS. 1–2 2018

2018 VOLUME 46 NUMBER 1–2

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Oriens
Journal of Philosophy, Theology and Science in Islamic Societies
Aims & Scope
Oriens is dedicated to extending our knowledge of intellectual history and developments in the
rationalist disciplines in Islamic civilization, with a special emphasis on philosophy, theology, and
science. These disciplines had a profoundly rich and lasting life in Islamic civilization and often
interacted in complex ways—from the period of their introduction to Islamic civilization in the
translation movement that began in the eighth century, through the early and classical periods of
development, to the post-classical age, when they shaped even such disciplines as legal theory and
poetics. The journal’s range extends from the early and classical to the early modern periods (ca. 700–
1900 ce) and it engages all regions and languages of Islamic civilization. In the tradition of Hellmut
Ritter, who founded Oriens in 1948, the central focus of interest of the journal is on the medieval and
early modern periods of the Near and Middle East. Within this framework, the opening up of the
sources and the pursuit of philological and historical research based on original source material is
the main concern of its editors and contributors. In addition to individual articles, Oriens welcomes
proposals for thematic volumes within the series.
Founded by
Hellmut Ritter
Honorary Editor
Gerhard Endress (Bochum)
Managing Editors
Asad Q. Ahmed (Berkeley, ca) – Robert G. Morrison (Brunswick, me) – Cornelia Schöck (Bochum)
Editors for Thematic Volume, Oriens, 46.1–2
Asad Q. Ahmed (Berkeley, ca)
Robert Gleave (Exeter)
Editorial Board
Rüdiger Arnzen (Bochum) – Amos Bertolacci (Pisa) – Hans Hinrich Biesterfeldt (Bochum) – Charles
Burnett (London) – Ahmed Djebbar (Lille) – Khaled El-Rouayheb (Cambridge, ma) – Gerhard Endress
(Bochum) – Dimitri Gutas (New Haven, ct) – Hayat Kara (Rabat) – Remke Kruk (Leiden) – Jon
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Würsch (Basel/Zürich)
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