Islamic jurisprudence in the classical era /
"Ten years after his untimely death, Norman Calder is still considered a luminary in the field of Islamic law. At the time he was one among a handful of scholars from the West who were beginning to engage with the subject. In the intervening years, much has changed, and Islamic law is now under...
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Introduction Robert Gleave; 1. The Hanafi law on fornication; 2. Nawawi and the typologies of fiqh writing; 3. Scholars, muftis, judges, and secular power: the need for distinctions; 4. The social function of fatwas; Afterword: scholarly priorities and Islamic studies: the reviews of Norman Calder Robert Gleave.