Early Islamic legal theory
Subtitle: the Risāla of Muḥammad ibn Idrīs al-Shāfiʻī
By: by Joseph E. Lowry.
Series: Studies in Islamic law and society -- v. 30
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 443
ISBN-13: 9789004163607
Subjects: Shāfiʻī, Muḥammad ibn Idrīs, -- 767 or 8-820; Islamic law -- Interpretation and construction -- Early works to 1800; Shafiites -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [387]-399) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Shāfiʻī's concept of the Bayān; title: Two hermeneutical techniques; title: Prophetic sunna and hadith in the Risāla; title: The Qurān in Shāfiʻī's Risāla; title: Shāfiʻī's epistemology; title: Internal evidence for the Risāla's polemical context; title: Ijmā in the Risāla; title: The Risāla and its relationship to mature Uml al-Fiqh.