The Historiography of Islamic Law
The Historiography of Islamic Law: The Case of Tārīkh al-Tashrī‘ Literature Arif Maftuhin * Sunan Kalijaga State Islamic University (UIN) Yogyakarta, Indonesia DOI: https://doi.org/10.14421/ajis.2016.542.369-391 Abstract Tārīkh al-Tashrī‘ (the history of sharia affairs) is a relatively new genre of Islamic historiography and very popular among students of Islamic Law. Despite its popularity, academics of Islamic historiography seem not interested in studying it. There is hardly any academic paper seriously studied the literature. This paper is a first effort to explore the Tārīkhu’t-tashrī‘ literature through a historiographical analysis. As an initial exploration, it argues that Tārīkh al-Tashrī‘ is the latest development of Islamic historiography, developed in the 19th century, but it is a genre of the old Islamic historiography with some new elements. The new elements are influenced by both modern Western historiography and the need to re-open the supposedly closed g...