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Disagreements of the Jurists: A Manual of Islamic Legal Theory (Library of Arabic Literature)

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A masterful overview of Islamic law and its diversity
 

Al-Qadi al-Nu’man used to be the chief legal theorist and ideologue of the North African Fatimid dynasty within the tenth century. This translation makes to be had for the first time in English his major work on Islamic legal theory (usul al-fiqh), which presents a legal model in improve of the Fatimid claim to legitimate rule.

Composed as a part of a grand project to ascertain the theoretical bases of the official Fatimid legal school, Disagreements of the Jurists expounds a distinctly Shi’i system of hermeneutics. The work begins with a discussion of the historical causes of jurisprudential divergence within the first Islamic centuries and goes on to engage, point by point, with the specific interpretive methods of Sunni legal theory. The text thus preserves essential passages from a couple of Islamic legal theoretical works no longer extant, and within the process throws light on a crucial stage within the development of Islamic legal theory that would differently be lost to history.

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