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Law and Legal Theory in Classical and Medieval Islam
About this book
These studies by Wael Hallaq represent an important contribution to our understanding of the neglected field of medieval Islamic law and legal thought. Spanning the period from the 8th to the 16th centuries, they draw upon a wide range of original sources to offer both fresh interpretations of those sources and a careful evaluation of contemporary scholarship. The first articles expound the interrelated issues of legal reasoning, legal logic and the epistemology of the law. There follows a set of primarily historical studies, which question a series of widely held assumptions, while the last items explore issues of legal theory and methodology. One particular topic concerns the role of Shafi'i as the 'master architect' of Islamic legal theory, and Professor Hallaq would finally argue that this image is in fact false and a creation of later centuries.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Series Page
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- I: The Logic of Legal Reasoning in Religious and Non-Religious Cultures: The Case of Islamic Law and the Common Law
- II: Non-Analogical Arguments in Sunni Juridical Qiyās
- III: Logic, Formal Arguments and Formalization of Arguments in Sunnī Jurisprudence
- IV: On Inductive Corroboration, Probability and Certainty in Sunni Legal Thought
- V: Was the Gate of ljtihad Closed?
- VI: On the Origins of the Controversy about the Existence of Mujtahids and the Gate of Ijtihad
- VII: Was al-Shafi'i the Master Architect of Islamic Jurisprudence?
- VIII: On the Authoritativeness of Sunni Consensus
- IX: The Use and Abuse of Evidence: The Question of Provincial and Roman Influences on Early Islamic Law
- X: Notes on the Term Qarȋna in Islamic Legal Discourse
- XI: The Primacy of the Qur'ān in Shāṭibī's Legal Theory
- XII: Uṣūl al-Fiqh: Beyond Tradition
- Index of Arabic Terms
- General Index