Early Islamic Legal Theory: The Risala of Muhammad Ibn Idris Al-shafi-i (Studies in Islamic Law and Society)
Book Details
Author(s)Joseph E. Lowry
PublisherBrill Academic Pub
ISBN / ASIN9004163603
ISBN-139789004163607
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Description
The Risala of al-Shafii (d. 204/820), the earliest preserved work of Islamic legal theory, has been understood in previous scholarship as the elaboration of a hierarchy of sources of law (Quran, Sunna, consensus, and analogical reasoning).
