This article examines an ongoing controversy in Islamic ritual law concerning the effect of nail polish on one’s ritual purity. Ritual law serves as the canvas on which some of the most intriguing debates on Islamic theology, rationality and legal reasoning are sketched out as rival conceptualizations of the nature of God – as a rational and merciful agent or as supra-rational being – generate rival sets of jurisprudential and legal doctrines. The study of ritual law also reveals key fault lines in contemporary Sunni Islamic legal and theological thought, particularly the ways in which scholars expressing varying degrees of sympathy with Salafism – from the South Asian Ahl-e Ḥadīth tradition, the Ahl al-Ḥadīth tradition and the Ḥanbalī tradition – create new positions in Sunni law while continuing to champion principles and precedents valorized in Salafism and making their arguments legible in Sunnism.

本文探讨了伊斯兰礼仪法中有关指甲油对人的礼仪纯洁性影响的持续争议。仪式法作为画布，勾勒出一些有关伊斯兰神学，理性和法律推理的最有趣的辩论，作为对上帝本质的敌对概念化（作为理性和仁慈的代理人或作为超理性的人）产生敌对的场景。法学和法律学说。对礼节法的研究还揭示了当代逊尼派伊斯兰法律和神学思想的主要断层线，特别是学者们从南亚Ahl-eḤadīth传统中表达了对萨拉夫主义不同程度同情的方式，