TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hallaq,Wael B.
TI  - Origins and evolution of Islamic law
T2  - Themes in Islamic law
SN  - 0521803322 (hardback)
AV  - KBP55 .H35 
U1  - 340.5/9/09 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Cambridge, UK, New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Islamic law
KW  - History
KW  - To 1500
KW  - Droit islamique
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Jusqu'à 1500
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-228) and index; Introduction -- 1. The pre-Islamic Near East, Muhammad and Quranic law -- 2. The emergence of an Islamic legal ethic -- 3. The early judges, legal specialists and the search for religious authority -- 4. The judiciary coming of age -- 5. Prophetic authority and the modification of legal reasoning -- 6. Legal theory expounded -- 7. The formation of legal schools -- 8. Law and politics: caliphs, judges and jurists -- Conclusion
N2  - Covering more than three centuries of legal history, this study presents an important account of how Islam developed its own law from ancient Near Eastern legal cultures, Arabian customary law and Quranic reform. The book explores the interplay between law and politics, demonstrating how the jurists and ruling elite led a symbiotic existence that paradoxically allowed Islamic law to become uniquely independent of the "state."
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