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- Publications
- Influence
The Ḥāshiya in Islamic Law: A Sketch of the Shāfiʿī Literature
- Ahmed El Shamsy
- Political Science
- 2013
This essay presents a survey of legal ḥawāshī (glosses) produced by Shāfiʿī jurists between the fifteenth and twentieth centuries. I outline the particular features of the legal ḥāshiya, the kind of… Expand
The social construction of orthodoxy
- Ahmed El Shamsy
- Political Science
- 1 May 2008
Orthodoxy as a social phenomenon is not a “thing” but rather a process. For theological doctrines to become established as orthodox, they must find a place in the constantly changing net of social… Expand
Debates on Prayer in Second/Eighth-century Islam: Some Remarks on Sijpesteijn’s Papyrus
- Ahmed El Shamsy
- History
- 26 September 2016
Book Review: Islam and Literalism: Literal Meaning and Interpretation in Islamic Legal Theory, written by Robert Gleave
- Ahmed El Shamsy
- Philosophy
- 20 February 2015