Studies in Islamic Legal Theory

This volume contains ground-breaking studies on such matters as the early development of legal theory in Islam, the emergence of "us l al-fiqh," theory vis-a-vis practice, various controversies among Muslim theorists, the construction of juristic authority, reformist concepts, and the role of "qaw cid."

ROBERT GLEAVE, Lecturer in Islamic Studies, University of Bristol. Ph.D., 1996,
University of Manchester. Author of Inevitable Doubt: Two Theories of Shi'i
Jurisprudence (Brill, 2000) and "Akhban Sh^i Usul al-fiqh and the Juristic Theory
of ...