A History of Islamic Legal Theories

A History of Islamic Legal Theories

An Introduction to Sunni Usul Al-fiqh

By Wael B. Hallaq

Paperback 294 Pages

ISBN 9780521599863 

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

About The Book

In this book, the author traces the history of Islamic legal theory from its early beginnings until the modern period. Initially, he focuses on the early formation of this theory, analyzing its central themes and examining the developments which gave rise to a variety of doctrines.

About The Author

Wael B. Hallaq is a scholar of Islamic law and Islamic intellectual history. His teaching and research deal with the problematic epistemic ruptures generated by the onset of modernity and the socio-politico-historical forces subsumed by it, with the intellectual history of Orientalism and the repercussions of Orientalist paradigms in later scholarship and in Islamic legal studies as a whole, and with the synchronic and diachronic development of Islamic traditions of logic, legal theory, and substantive law and the interdependent systems within these traditions.