Islamic law
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A Critical Edition of 'Umdat al-Nazir 'ala al-Ashbah wa'l-Naza ir
This book presents a critical edition of the twelfth/eighteenth century manuscript on the subject of legal maxims 'Umdat al-Nazir 'ala al-Ashbah wa'l-Naza'ir'. It was composed by a distinguished Hanifite jurist Abu 'l-Su'ud al-Husayn and is a commentary on an earlier seminal text al-Ashbah wa'l-Naza...
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The al-Ghazali Enigma and why Shari'a is not Islamic Law
This book offers a long-overdue intellectual biography of the late Egyptian Shaykh Mohammed al-Ghazali (d.1996). But its main purpose is to shed light on Shari'a, a highly politicized concern of our times. Instead of the standard accounts of Islam emphasizing 'extremists,' 'traditionalists,' 'modera...