Mālik and Medina: Islamic Legal Reasoning in the Formative Period

by Umar F. Abd-Allah

This book studies the legal reasoning of Mālik ibn Anas (d. 179 H./795 C.E.) in the Muwaṭṭa' and Mudawwana. Although focusing on Mālik, the book presents a broad comparative study of legal reasoning in the first three centuries of Islam. It reexamines the role of considered opinion (ra'y), dissent, and legal ḥadīths and challenges the paradigm that Muslim jurists ultimately concurred on...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004211403
• ISBN13: 9789004211407
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 568 Pages