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Authors: Wael B. Hallaq
ISBN-13: 9780521803311, ISBN-10: 0521803314
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: July 2001
Edition: (Non-applicable)
A penetrating analysis of the relationship between authority, continuity and change in Islamic law.
Preface | ||
1 | Juristic typologies: a framework for enquiry | 1 |
2 | Early ijtihad and the later construction of authority | 24 |
3 | The rise and augmentation of school authority | 57 |
4 | Taqlid: authority, hermeneutics, and function | 86 |
5 | Operative terminology and the dynamics of legal doctrine | 121 |
6 | The jurisconsult, the author-jurist, and legal change | 166 |
Summary and conclusions | 236 | |
Bibliography | 242 | |
Index | 261 |