Year: 2023
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: 4P atternsa nd TrendsBe not in pursuit of injury and [apart from this] do whatever you desire For in our sharia, there is no sin beside this.Hafiz¹It should by now be clear that there were many parallel developmentsi nthe two worlds,although they did not alwaysoccur at the same time.Inboth worlds there werep eriods in which rule-breakers and their justifications were allowed more space as well as periods of tighter control.Both worlds sawacertain tugbetween formalism and anti-formalism.In both worlds peoples ought to fortify the private sphere.In both worlds the guardians were, overall, more lenient on usury than on sodomy.Both worlds sawaprofuse use of ambiguous language and visuals.In both worlds observers accused the people using certain types of justifications of hypocrisy.T his chapter seeks to account for and explain thep arallel developments as well as the, on closer inspection, not so divergent timelines.There are several possible explanations for the parallels: they might represent universal human responses to certain pressures, or they came with thes hared conceptso ft he Judeo-Christo-Islamic and Platonic heritage, or they were am anifestationo ft he interconnectedness of the earlym odern world.Most likely, ac ombination of all these factors went into the parallel developments.Ishall try to take all the possible factors into account,s tarting with the universal.
Source: De Gruyter eBooks
Author: Gijs Kruijtzer
Language: English
Topic: Islamic Studies and History
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4388456232