Tag Archives: Islamic Legal Theory

This book is the product of a huge collective effort by scholars from all over the world to study Islamic Fatawa, or legal opinions of the Shariah, issued by...

This book focuses on four socially grounded fields of legal knowledge: fiqh, codification, individual waqf cases, and everyday waqf-related knowledge...

The book "History of Islamic Legal Theories" provides an excellent starting-point to follow these important debates that will help determine the future direction of Muslim societies...

In Imāmī legal theory, the akhbār of the Imams form one of the material sources of law, alongside the...

This book is addressed to a four-part audience: a wide readership of persons both within and without Islamic...

In this reading of Islamic legal hermeneutics, Robert Gleave explores various competing notions of literal meaning, linked to...