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The Formation of Islamic Law
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The fourteen studies included in this volume have been chosen to serve several purposes simultaneously. At a basic level, they aim to provide a general - if not wholly systematic - coverage of the emergence and evolution of law during the first three and a half centuries of Islam. On another level, they reflect the different and, at times, widely divergent scholarly approaches to this subject matter. These two levels combined will offer a useful account of the rise of Islamic law not only for students in this field but also for Islamicists who are not specialists in matters of law, comparative legal historians, and others. At the same time, however, and as the Introduction to the work argues, this collection of distinguished contributions illustrates both the achievements and the shortcomings of paradigmatic scholarship on the formative period of Islamic law.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- General Editor's Preface
- Introduction
- 1. The Arab Conquests and the Formation of Islamic Society
- 2. Pre-Islamic Background and Early Development of Jurisprudence
- 3. Foreign Elements in Ancient Islamic Law
- 4. The Birth-Hour of Muslim Law?: An Essay in Exegesis
- 5. Two Legal Problems Bearing on the Early History of the Qur'ān
- 6. Unconditional Manumission of Slaves in Early Islamic Law: A Ḥadīth Analysis
- 7. The Role of Non-Arab Converts in the Development of Early Islamic Law
- 8. The Judiciary (Qāḍīs) as a Governmental-Administrative Tool in Early Islam
- 9. Islamic Juristic Terminology before Šāfi'ī: A Semantic Analysis with Special Reference to Kūfa
- 10. Was al-Shafi'i the Master Architect of Islamic Jurisprudence?
- 11. Muḥammad b. Dā'ūd al-Ẓāhirī's Manual of Jurisprudence, al-Wuṣūl ilā Ma'rifat al-Uṣūl
- 12. Early Ijtihād and the Later Construction of Authority
- 13. The Formation of the Sunnī Schools of Law
- 14. The Caliphs, the 'Ulamā', and the Law: Defining the Role and Function of the Caliph in the Early 'Abbāsid Period
- Index