The Islamic school of law
Subtitle: evolution, devolution, and progress
By: edited by Peri Bearman, Rudolph Peters, Frank E. Vogel.
Contributors: Bearman, P. J.; Peters, Rudolph.; Vogel, Frank E.; International Conference on Islamic Legal Studies (3rd : 2000 : Cambridge, Mass.)
Series: Harvard series in Islamic law -- 2.
Publisher: Islamic Legal Studies Program, Harvard Law School; Distributed by Harvard University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
Subjects: Islamic law -- Interpretation and construction; Islamic law -- History
Notes: "This volume is the outcome of the Third International Conference on Islamic Legal Studies, held May 4-6, 2000 at Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Mass."--P. [vii].

Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-289) and index.
Table of contents: title: The; title: madhhab in Islamic legal theory -- Bernard Weiss; title: Al-Awzāʻī and Sufyān al-Thawrī: the Umayyad madhhab? -- Steven C. Judd; title: Continuity and change in Islamic law: the concept of madhhab and the dimensions of legal disagreement in Hanafi scholarship of the tenth century -- Eyyup Said Kaya -- The; title: introduction of Mālik's teachings in al-Andalus -- Alfonso Carmona; title: Proto-Malikis, Malikis, and Reformed Malikis in al-Andalus -- Maribel Fierro; title: Madhhab and Madrasa in eleventh-century Baghdad -- Daphna Ephrat; title: Fidelity, cohesion, and conformity within madhhabs in Zangid and Ayyubid Syria -- Daniella Talmon-Heller -- The; title: beginnings of the Zahiri madhhab in al-Andalus -- Camilla Adang; title: Intra-madhhab Ikhtilāf and the late classical Imami Shiite conception of the madhhab -- Robert Gleave; title: What does it mean to be an official madhhab? Hanafism and the Ottoman Empire -- Rudolph Peters; title: Madhhabs and modernities -- Brinkley Messick; title: Islam and nationalism in Indonesia: forging an Indonesian madhhab -- Mark E. Cammack; title: Inter-madhhab surfing, neo-Ijtihad, and faith-based movement leaders-- Ihsan Yilmaz.