Custom in Islamic law and legal theory
Subtitle: the development of the concepts of ʻUrf and ʻĀdah  in the Islamic legal tradition
By: Ayman Shabana
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Palgrave series in Islamic theology, law, and history
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780230105928
Subjects: Customary law (Islamic law)
Notes: Based on author's doctoral dissertation--University of California, Los Angeles, 2009.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-239) and index.
Table of contents: title: Custom and Islamic law in modern scholarship; title: Normative foundations of the concept of custom in the Islamic legal tradition; title: From ʻĀdah to ʻUrf : theological foundations of the concept of custom as reflected in the debate over causality; title: Custom between the theoretical school and the applied school; title: The expansion of legal theory; title: Custom and legal maxims al-Qawāʻid al-Fiqhiyyah; title: Custom and the objectives of Sharīʻah : Maqāṣid al-Sharīʻah; title: Custom, legal application, and the construction of reality.