The Islamic School of Law

Evolution, Devolution, and Progress

Edited by Peri Bearman

Edited by Rudolph Peters

Edited by Frank E. Vogel

    Preface

    1. Bernard Weiss, The Madhhab in Islamic Legal Theory

    2. Steven C. Judd, Al-Awza'i and Sufyan al-Thawri: The Umayyad Madhhab?

    3. Eyyup Said Kaya, Continuity and Change in Islamic Law: The Concept of Madhhab and the Dimensions of Legal Disagreement in Hanafi Scholarship of the Tenth Century

    4. Alfonso Carmona, The Introduction of Malik's Teachings in al-Andalus

    5. Maribel Fierro, Proto-Malikis, Malikis, and Reformed Malikis in al-Andalus

    6. Daphna Ephrat, Madhhab and Madrasa in Eleventh-Century Baghdad

    7. Daniella Talmon-Heller, Fidelity, Cohesion, and Conformity within Madhhabs in Zangid and Ayyubid Syria

    8. Camilla Adang, The Beginnings of the Zahiri Madhhab in al-Andalus

    9. Robert Gleave, Intra-Madhhab Ikhtilaf and the Late Classical Imami Shiite Conception of the Madhhab

    10. Rudolph Peters, What Does It Mean to Be an Official Madhhab? Hanafism and the Ottoman Empire

    11. Brinkley Messick, Madhhabs and Modernities

    12. Mark E. Cammack, Islam and Nationalism in Indonesia: Forging an Indonesian Madhhab

    13. Ihsan Yilmaz, Inter-Madhhab Surfing, Neo-Ijtihad, and Faith-Based Movement Leaders

    Endnotes

    Contributors

    Glossary

    Bibliography

    Index

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Peri Bearman is Associate Director, Islamic Legal Studies Program at Harvard Law School.

Rudolph Peters is Professor in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Amsterdam.

Frank E. Vogel is The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Adjunct Professor of Islamic Legal Studies Program at Harvard Law School.