Development of Shafii Doctrine and its Transmission to East Africa

2019 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 16K03258
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Fundamental law
• Research Institution: The University of Tokyo
• Principal Investigator: Yanagihashi Hiroyuki 東京大学, 大学院人文社会系研究科(文学部), 教授 (70220192)
• Project Period (FY): 2016-04-01 – 2020-03-31
• Keywords: ハディース / イスラーム法 / 預言者伝承 / シャーフィイー派

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The most important outcome of this project is Hiroyuki Yanagihashi, Studies in Legal Hadith, Leiden and Boston, 2019. In this book, I have demonstrated that the reformulation of legal hadith wenet hand in hand with the development of legal opinions of the four Sunni schools of law, in particular the Shafii doctrine, based on the analysis of legal hadith and positive law in seven topics, i.e., hadiths related to the legal status of water to be used for ablution, fasting during a journey, prevention of pilgrimage, guardianship in marriage, prohibiton of riba, the law of evidence in a qadi court, and hadiths that originated in the Constitution of Medina.

Free Research Field

イスラム学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

最大の研究成果であるStudies in Legal Hadithにおいては、これまでごく概説的な分析にとどまっていたハディース（預言者伝承）の内容について、スンナ派実定法、特にシャーフィイー派学説と関連付けながら、その歴史的展開を細部にわたって追跡した。とくに、数量分析を取り入れた点と、スンナ派４法学の成立以前に遡って幾つかの実定法規の展開と結び付けて異本を解釈した点は、近年やや停滞気味だったハディース研究に新たな局面を開くものである。