Destroying churches by performing knowledge : Ibn al-Rifʿa’s Kitāb al-nafā’is fī adillat hadm al-kanā’is (700/1301) and the social negotiation of legal authority

• Autor: Van Den Bossche, Gowaart
• Assuntos: church destruction ; disputation ; History and Archaeology ; Ibn al-Rif'a ; Mamluk period ; polemics ; Shafii fiqh
• Notas: ISSN: 0928-9380
  ISSN: 1568-5195
  ISLAMIC LAW AND SOCIETY
  
• Descrição: In 700/1301 the Cairene scholar Najm al-din Ibn al-Rif'a wrote a short juridical treatise entitled Kitab al-nafa'is fi adillat hadm al-kana'is in which he argued for the destruction of all churches and synagogues in Cairo. Some chroniclers report that this text was used to legitimise popular attacks on, and the destruction of, churches, but shortly thereafter, Ibn al-Rif'a's opinion was declared invalid by a council of prominent jurists. In addition to its juridical arguments for church destruction, Ibn al-Rif'a suggests that the treatise was meant to function as a challenge to the author's peers. I argue that al-Nafa'is reflects ideas about the normative application of Shafi'i fiqh and that it can serve as a lens through which we can reconstruct a complex picture of the performance and negotiation of legal authority in the Mamluk period.
  
• Data de criação/publicação: 2020
  
• Idioma: Inglês