Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Editor's Introduction -- PART ONE: Early Developments in Muslim Legal Theory -- Competing Theories of Authority in Early Mālikī Texts -- Does Shāfi'ī have a Theory of Four Sources of Law? -- Sunnah in the Responses of Ishāq b. Rāhwayh -- Qur'ānic Abrogation Across the Ninth Century: Shāfi'ī Abu 'Ubayd, Muhāsibī, and Ibn Qutaybah -- Muhammad b. Dāwud al-Zāhirī's Manual of Jurisprudence: Al-Wusul ilā ma'rifat al-usul -- PART TWO: The Function of Usul al-fiqh -- Istihsān is Nine-tenths of the Law": The Puzzling Relationship of Usul to Furu' in the Mālikī Madhhab -- Fiction and Formalism: Toward a Functional Analysis of Usul al-fiqh -- PART THREE: Controversies Within and Between Schools -- Like the Difference between Heaven and Earth:" Hanafī and Shāfi'ī Discussions of Wājib and Fard -- Mu'tazilism and Māturīdism in Hanafī Legal Theory -- Imāmī Shī'ī Refutations of Qiyās -- Usul-related Madhhab Differences in Āmidī's Ihkām -- PART FOUR: Authority, Reform, Underlying Principles -- Takhrīj and the Construction of Juristic Authority -- Reforming Islam by Dissolving the Madhhabs: Shawkānī and his Zaydī Detractors in Yemen -- Qawā'id as a Genre of Legal Literature -- Alta Discussion -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.

This volume is a collection of studies devoted entirely to topics and issues in the field of Islamic legal theory and authored by 14 scholars known for their work in this field. The studies deal with such topics as early notions of charismatic authority.

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