This book is about the application of the Quran as law. It considers the methods used by Malik in his Muwatta to derive judgements from the Quran and is thus concerned on one level with the finer details of Quranic interpretation. However, since any discussion of the Quran in the context of the Muwatta must necessarily include consideration of the terms Sunnah, hadith, ijtihad and amal, these terms - or at least the concepts behind them - also receive...