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Authors: Wael B. Hallaq
ISBN-13: 9780521005807, ISBN-10: 0521005809
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: February 2005
Edition: New Edition
Wael B. Hallaq is Professor of Islamic Law at the Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University. He is the author of Ibn Taymiyya: Against the Greek Logicians (1993), A History of Islamic Legal Theories (1997) and Authority, Continuity and Change in Islamic Law (2001).
The history of Islamic law from pre-Islamic times across three centuries.
1 | The pre-Islamic near east, Muhammad and Quranic law | 8 |
2 | The emergence of an Islamic legal ethic | 29 |
3 | The early judges, legal specialists and the search for religious authority | 57 |
4 | The judiciary coming of age | 79 |
5 | Prophetic authority and the modification of legal reasoning | 102 |
6 | Legal theory expounded | 122 |
7 | The formation of legal schools | 150 |
8 | Law and politics : caliphs, judges and jurists | 178 |