The canonization of Islamic law : a social and intellectual history /

The Canonization of Islamic Law tells the story of the birth of classical Islamic law in the eighth and ninth centuries CE. It shows how an oral normative tradition embedded in communal practice was transformed into a systematic legal science defined by hermeneutic analysis of a clearly demarcated s...

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Main Author: El Shamsy, Ahmed, 1976- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
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