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Hallaq Wael B

The Origins and Evolution of Islamic Law - Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2005 - 234p ix

Table of Contents
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
Conclusion.

ISBN: 9780521005807

Subjects--Topical Terms:
1. Mohammed Law - Evolution2. Islamic Law - EVolution - Origin

Dewey Class. No.: 340.590000 / HAL