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Medieval Islamic pragmatics : Sunni legal theorists' models of textual communication
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Title
Medieval Islamic pragmatics : Sunni legal theorists' models of textual communication / Mohamed Mohamed Yunis Ali.
ISBN
1136818294
1315027585
9781136818295
9781315027586
0415567777
0700711023
9780415567770
9780700711024
Publication
Richmond, Surrey : Curzon, 2000.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xv, 267 pages)
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Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
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Summary
This book deals with two different pragmatic approaches to textual communication: (i) the mainstream approach followed by the 'Ash'ari s, Hanafi s and Mu'tazili s, (ii) the salafite approach followed mainly by the Hanbali s, defended and elaborated by Ibn Taymiyyah. One of the primary aims of the book is to explore and formulate several Muslim legal theorists' pragmatic theories, communicative principles and linguistic views, construct them in the form of models and set them within a general uniform framework. Another aim is to reveal a corpus of information and data which, though highly re.
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Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
Other formats
Print version: Ali, Mohamed Mohamed Yunis. Medieval Islamic pragmatics
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 07, 2024
Series
Routledge Arabic Linguistics Series
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-252) and index.
Contents
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Transliteration conventions; Abbreviations; Chapter One
Introduction; 1.1. General background; 1.2. The legal theorists' pragmatic approaches to communication; 1.3. Aims and scope of the study; 1.4. A note on terminology; 1.5. The structure of the study; Chapter Two
Wadc and Use; 2.1. Introduction; 2.2. Wadc; 2.2.1. Universal and particular Wadc; 2.2.2. General and specific Wadc; 2.3. Use; 2.3.1. Intention; 2.3.2. Content; Chapter Three
Interpretation; 3.1. Introduction.
3.2. Fiqh, understanding and interpretation3.3. Signifying by expressions and the signification of expressions; 3.4. Context from the viewpoint of the addressee; 3.4.1. Comprehensive sight of text; 3.4.2. Context as a signifying element; 3.4.3. Types of content; 3.5. The mainstream interpretation model; 3.5.1. The usūl (principles and bases); 3.5.1.1. The Principle of the Speaker's Disposition to Make his Intention Manifest; 3.5.1.2. The Principle of the Speaker's Truthfulness; 3.5.1.3. The Principle of Icmāl; 3.5.1.4. The Principal of Immediacy; 3.5.1.5. The Principle of Istishāb.
4.8. Ibn Taymiyyah's critial review of haqīqah and majāz dichotomy4.8.1. The view of the adherents of haqīqah and majāz dichotomy; 4.8.1.1. Arguments in favour of the distinction between haqīqah and majāz; 4.8.2. Arguments against the distinction between haqīqah and majāz; 4.8.3. Ibn Taymiyyah's accound of majāz; 4.9. Ibn Taymiyyah's model of interpretation; 4.9.1. Tawīl (diverting to non-appatent meaning); 4.9.1.1. The limitations of tawīl; Chapter Five
Ways of Signification; 5.1. Introduction; 5.2. The semiotic classification of signification; 5.2.1. Wadc-based verbal signification.
5.2.1.1. Types of Wadc-based verbal signification5.2.1.2. Criticisms of the classification; 5.3. The text-based classification of siginfication; 5.3.1. The Hanafī method of dividing text-signification; 5.3.1.1. The express meaning of text; 5.3.1.2. The alluded meaning of text; 5.3.1.3. The inferred meaning of text; 5.3.1.4. The required meaning of text; 5.3.2. The Shāficī method of dividing text-signification; 5.3.2.1. Al-Juwaynī's classification; 5.3.2.2. Al-Ghazāli's classification; 5.3.2.3. Al-Āmidī's classification; 5.3.2.4. Ibn al-Hājib's classification; 5.3.3. Implicature.
Chapter Four
Ibn Taymiyyah's Contextual Theory of Interpretation4.1. Introduction; 4.2. Call for a contextual approach; 4.3. Philosophical background; 4.3.1. Ibn Taymiyyah's ontological position; 4.3.2. Ibn Taymiyyah's theory of cognitive relativism; 4.3.3 Ibn Taymiyyah's contextual theory of definition; 4.4. Ibn Taymiyyah's contextual view of language and meaningfulness; 4.5. Ibn Taymiyyah's contextual view of the wadc-use distinction; 4.6. Ibn Taymiyyah's contextual view of the meaning-intention distinction; 4.7. Ibn Taymiyyah's contextual view of signification.
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