Malik and Medina: Islamic Reasoning in the Formative Period (Islamic History and Civilization): Islamic Legal Reasoning in the Formative Period: 101 - Hardcover

Abd-Allah, Umar F

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004211403 ISBN 13: 9789004211407

Publisher: Brill, 2013

Synopsis

This book studies the legal reasoning of Mālik ibn Anas (d. 179 H./795 C.E.) in the Muwaṭṭa' and Mudawwana. Although focusing on Mālik, the book presents a broad comparative study of legal reasoning in the first three centuries of Islam. It reexamines the role of considered opinion (ra'y), dissent, and legal ḥadīths and challenges the paradigm that Muslim jurists ultimately concurred on a "four-source" (Qurʾān, sunna, consensus, and analogy) theory of law. Instead, Mālik and Medina emphasizes that the four Sunnī schools of law (madhāhib) emerged during the formative period as distinctive, consistent, yet largely unspoken legal methodologies and persistently maintained their independence and continuity over the next millennium.

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Review:

"...an enormously important study of early Islamic law that does for the Mālikī school what has not been achieved for any of the other schools, namely, providing a systematic analysis of its foundational texts of positive law."
Ahmed El Shamsy in Ilahiyat Studies 5.1 (2014), pp. 126-131.

About the Author:

Umar F. Abd-Allah Wymann-Landgraf (Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1978) taught at Windsor, Temple, Michigan, and King Abd al-Aziz universities. He currently teaches at Darul Qasim (Chicago) and has published several books and articles related to Islam and Islamic studies.

About this edition

• Publisher: Brill
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 9004211403
• ISBN 13: 9789004211407
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 568