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Language: en
Pages: 488
Pages: 488
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002 - Publisher: BRILL
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Language: en
Pages: 460
Pages: 460
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007 - Publisher: BRILL
This book offers a comprehensive reinterpretation of Sh?fi 's "Ris?la" and shows how Sh?fi sought to formulate an all-embracing hermeneutic that portrays the la
Language: en
Pages: 192
Pages: 192
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-03-15 - Publisher: OUP Oxford
In this book Rumee Ahmed shatters the prevailing misconceptions of the purpose and form of the Islamic legal treatise. Through a subtle interpretation of the wo
Language: en
Pages: 272
Pages: 272
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-11-14 - Publisher: Springer
This book explores the relationship between custom and Islamic law and seeks to uncover the role of custom in the construction of legal rulings. On a deeper lev
Language: en
Pages: 233
Pages: 233
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006 - Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Focuses on a Muslim legal science known in Arabic as usul al-fiqh. Whereas the kindred science of fiqh is concerned with the articulation of actual rules of law