Ahmet Muhammet Peşe

Beyond Verbal and Practical: Constructing ʿUrf Fikrī as a Third Category in Ḥanafī Custom Theory

Despite its central role in the linguistic interpretation and the application of legal rulings to social change, the custom (ʿurf) theory in Islamic law contains theoretical problems stemming particularly from its binary classification into verbal and practical (qawlī and ʿamalī)...