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Authors: Wael B. Hallaq
ISBN-13: 9780521803328, ISBN-10: 0521803322
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: December 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Wael B. Hallaq

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).

Book Synopsis

The history of Islamic law from pre-Islamic times across three centuries.

Table of Contents

1The pre-Islamic near east, Muhammad and Quranic law8
2The emergence of an Islamic legal ethic29
3The early judges, legal specialists and the search for religious authority57
4The judiciary coming of age79
5Prophetic authority and the modification of legal reasoning102
6Legal theory expounded122
7The formation of legal schools150
8Law and politics : caliphs, judges and jurists178

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