Law and Tradition in Classical Islamic Thought

Zusatztext

Bringing together essays on topics related to Islamic law, this book is composed of articles by prominent legal scholars and historians of Islam. They exemplify a critical development in the field of Islamic Studies: the proliferation of methodological approaches that employ a broad variety of sources to analyze social and political developments.

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Michael Cook is Class of 1943 University Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. Najam Haider is an assistant professor in the Department of Religion at Barnard College/Columbia University. Intisar Rabb is an associate professor at New York University in the Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies and at the NYU School of Law. Asma Sayeed is an assistant professor of Islamic Studies in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at UCLA.

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