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The Islamic School of Law: Evolution, Devolution, and Progress
edited by Peri Bearman, Rudolph Peters and Frank E. Vogel
contributions by Daniella Talmon-Heller, Bernard G. Weiss, Ihsan Yilmaz, Camilla Adang, Alfonso Carmona, Maribel Fierro, Robert Gleave, Steven C. Judd and Eyyup Said Kaya
Harvard University Press, 2005
Cloth: 978-0-674-01784-9
Library of Congress Classification KBP250.I84 2005

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ABOUT THIS BOOK
The Islamic school of law, or madhhab, is a concept on which a substantial amount has been written but of which there is still little understanding, and even less consensus. This collection of selected papers from the III International Conference on Islamic Legal Studies, held in May 2000 at the Harvard Law School, offers building blocks toward the entire edifice of understanding the complex development of the madhhab, a development that even in the contemporary dissolution of madhhab lines and grouping continues to fascinate. As scholars look to the construction of a new Islamic legal history, these essays inform on the background to madhhab formation, on inter-madhhab polemics and the drive toward legal authority, on madhhab perpetuation and anti-madhhab tendencies, on the constitutional role of the madhhab, on the madhhab's legislative and adjudicative mechanisms, and on the significance of the madhhab in comparative terms. This volume is of value to anyone interested in the nature of Islamic law.
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