Waqf in Zaydī Yemen : legal theory, codification, and local practice / by Eirik Hovden.
2019
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Author
Title
Waqf in Zaydī Yemen : legal theory, codification, and local practice / by Eirik Hovden.
Published
Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, [2019]
Call Number
KMX1271.35 .H68 2019
Former Call Number
Islam 300 H82 2019
ISBN
9789004377721 (hardback ; alk. paper)
9004377727
9004377727
Description
x, 425 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 25 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)1041907706
Summary
Islamic foundations (waqf, pl. awqāf) have been an integral part of Yemeni society both for managing private wealth and as a legal frame for charity and public infrastructure. This book focuses on four socially grounded fields of legal knowledge: fiqh, codification, individual waqf cases, and everyday waqf related knowledge. It combines textual analysis with ethnography seeking to understand how Islamic law is approached, used, produced and validated in selected topics of waqf law where the tensions are strong between ideals and pragmatic rules. The study analyses central Zaydī fiqh works such as the Sharḥ al-azhār-cluster, in addition to imamic decrees, fatwās, and waqf documents, mostly from Zaydī, Northern Yemen.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-399) and indexes.
Available in Other Form
Online version: Hovden, Eirik. Waqf in Zaydi Yemen. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2018 9789004377844 (DLC) 201803
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
ix
Figures
xi
Transliteration
xii
Personal Names and Imamic Tides
xii
Dates
xii
1.
Introduction
1
Waqf as Public Infrastructure and Welfare in Muslim Societies
2
Field, Scope, and Focus
7
Types of Data
14
Fieldwork
16
Archival Material
20
Structure of the Book
25
2.
Representing Validity in Islamic Law
27
Normative and Descriptive Models of Waqf
29
Academic Debates on Islamic Law
38
Arriving at an Analytical Framework
60
3.
Central Waqf Administration
76
Types of Waqf in Yemen
77
Historical Overview of Centralized State Waqf Administration
90
Waqf Administration Under the Qasimi Dynasty (1045--1289/1636--1872)
95
Waqf Administration of Imam Yahya and Imam Ahmad (1911--62)
115
Ministry of Awqaf After the Revolution (1962--)
131
4.
Main Texts of Zaydi Waqf Fiqh and Law
142
Zaydism
144
Zaydi Fiqh Texts and Authors
153
Zaydi Validated Fiqh, Imamic Decrees, Yemeni Codification and Laws
176
5.
Family Waqf and Inheritance
186
Structure and Main Argument of the Chapter
186
Arrival of al-Hadi and His Waqf-Wasiya Model
192
Fatwas of Imam al-Mansur `Abdallah b. Hamza (d. 614/1216)
194
Instisar and Nur al-absar
199
Views of Ibn al-Murtada (d. 840/1437) and Ibn Miftah (d. 877/1472)
200
Fatwa Collection of Imam `Izz al-Din (d. 900/1495)
203
Ikhtiyarat of al-Mutawakkil Isma'il (d. 1087/1676)
204
Al-Risala al-Mahdawiyya from 1188/1774
207
al-Shawkani's Views (d. 1250/1834)
214
Imam Yahya's Decrees
221
Imam Ahmad's Decrees
229
Republican Waqf Laws on the Matter
229
Exclusion of the Awlad al-Banat in Other Law Schools
244
6.
Tenant's Strong Hand
255
Property and Lease Law
256
Genealogy and Trajectory of the Three-Year Rule
260
Three-Year Rule in Zaydl Fiqh: A Chronological Presentation
264
Three-Year Rule in Modern Yemeni Codification
287
Three-Year Rule in Other Law Schools and Legal Traditions
293
Waqf Lease in Practice
300
7.
Private Rights in Public Waqf
314
Wasiya of Three Cisterns: Bayt al-Lahafa (2008): An Ethnographic Description
315
Four Waqf Documents of Public Sanaa Sabil-waqfs with Private Benefits
324
Theoretical Possibilities for Private Aspects of a Public Waqf
343
Questions Concerning the Right to Guardianship in Combined Waqfs
353
8.
Pure Law, `Urf, and Maslaha: Conclusions
370
Sources of Validity
370
Situating Legal Knowledge
377
Potential in Waqf
382
Bibliography
385
Index of People and Places
400
Index of Terms and Subjects
406