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The fourteen studies included in this volume have been chosen to serve several purposes simultaneously. At a basic level, they aim to provide a general - if not

The Second Formation of Islamic Law offers a new periodization of Islamic legal history in the eastern Islamic lands.

The classic introduction to Islamic law, tracing its development from its origins,through the medieval period, to its place in modern Islam.

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

Melchert traces the emergence of jurisprudence by h ad th, the personalization of the old regional schools in response, and finally the emergence of the classic