Danalyn Lee

Necessity, Legal Reasoning, and Value in the Islamic Legal Tradition: The Case of the Starving Person

In this article, I examine juristic discourses from the fifth/eleventh through tenth/sixteenth centuries on the hypothetical case of a starving person taking another’s food or property across four Sunni schools of law. Examination of these juristic discourses provides insight into an active, creative debate about the...