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The Canonization of Early Islamic Law: A Social and Intellectual History
The Canonization of Early Islamic Law A Social and Intellectual History
Author: Ahmed El Shamsy
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 scriptural canon. This transformation was inaugu...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781107041486
ISBN-10: 1107041481
Publication Date: 7/31/2013
Pages: 272
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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