The Islamic school of law : evolution, devolution, and progress

Author(s)

• Bearman, P. J. (Peri J.)
• Peters, Rudolph Albert, Sir
• Vogel, Frank E.

Bibliographic Information

The Islamic school of law : evolution, devolution, and progress

edited by Peri Bearman, Rudolph Peters, Frank E. Vogel

（Harvard series in Islamic law, 2）

Islamic Legal Studies Program, Harvard Law School , Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2005

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-289) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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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Details

• NCID: BA75557119
• ISBN:
  • 0674017846
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Cambridge, Mass.,Cambridge, Mass.
• Pages/Volumes: xvii, 300 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA63180975