The Origins and evolution of Islamic law / Wael B. Hallaq.

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004.

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Islamic law -- History -- To 1500.

1. The pre-Islamic near East, Muhammad and Quranic law

2. The emergence of an Islamic legal ethic

3. The early judges, legal specialists and the search for religious authority

4. The judiciary coming of age

5. Prophetic authority and the modification of legal reasoning

6. Legal theory expounded

7. The formation of legal schools

8. Law and politics: caliphs, judges and jurists.

Includes bibliography and index.

0521005809

ix, 234 p. : maps