The formation of Islamic law

Contents
Contents: General editor's preface;
Introduction;
The Arab conquests and the formation of Islamic society, I. M. Lapidus;
Pre-Islamic background and early development of jurisprudence, Joseph Schacht;
Foreign elements in ancient Islamic law, Joseph Schacht;
The birth-hour of Muslim law?: an essay in Exegesis, S.D. Goitein;
Two legal problems bearing on the early history of the Qur'an, Patricia Crone;
Unconditional manumission of slaves in early Islamic law: a hadith analysis, Ulrike Mitter;
The role of non-Arab converts in the development of early Islamic law, Harald Motzki;
The judiciary (Qadis) as a governmental-administrative tool in early Islam, Irit Abramski-Bligh;
Islamic juristic terminology before Safi'i: a semantic analysis with special reference to Kufa, Zafar Ishaq Ansari;
Was al-Shafi'i the master architect of Islamic jurisprudence?, Wael Hallaq;
Muhammad b. Da'ud al-Zahiri's Manual of Jurisprudence, al-Wusul ila Ma'rifat al-Usul, Devin Stewart;
Early Ijtihad and the later construction of authority, Wael Hallaq;
The formation of the Sunni schools of law, Christopher Melchert;
The Caliphs, the 'Ulama', and the law: defining the role and function of the Caliph in the early 'Abbasid Period, Muhammad Qasim Zaman;
Index.