Is Mālikī Qunūt a Medinan Practice Or an Egyptian One?
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https://doi.org/10.33102/johs.v5i2.114Keywords:
mālikī, qunūt, medinan, EgyptianAbstract
The questions of how Muslim legal schools developed, and how some jurists became dominant legal authorities have been the subject of some scholarly debate. In a chapter entitled “Competing Theories of Authenticity in Early Mālikī Texts,” Jonathan Brockopp argued against Norman Calder, Patricia Crone and John Wansbrough. All three maintained that the development of Islamic law reflected a linear move ‘from dependence on an individual Shaykh to dependence on God’s Prophet. Brockopp suggested a dialectic process, where this linearity competes with a different frame of authority where some jurists are raised by their followers to the status of a final authority, despite or at the expense of the Prophetic tradition. This study, which examines the early Mālikī texts on qunūt (the special non-Qur’anic recitation in certain prayers), partially corroborates Brockopp’s criticism of these three theorists. However, it questions the wide applicability of his “Great Shaykh Theory.” It shows a more complex process, where at least three, not two, competing legal desires (to establish textual authenticity, to consider the reverent position of key jurists, and to reconcile the two in case of conflict) dictate, not necessarily the arrangement of materials, but certainly legal preferences of the authors of these texts.
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