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"This pioneering study examines the process of reasoning in Islamic law. Some of the key questions addressed here include whether sacred law operates differently from secular law, why laws change or stay the same and how different cultural and historical settings impact the development of legal rulings. In order to explore these questions, the author examines the decisions of thirty jurists from the largest legal tradition in Islam: the Hanafi school of law. He traces their rulings on the question of women and communal prayer across a very broad period of time - from the eighth to the eighteenth century - to demonstrate how jurists interpreted the law and reconciled their decisions with the scripture and the sayings of the Prophet. The result is a fascinating overview of how Islamic law has evolved and the thinking behind individual rulings"--

Preliminary Material -- 1 Variant Traditions, Relative Chronology, and the Study of Intra-Quranic Parallels /Joseph Witztum -- 2 The Earliest Attestation of the Dhimma of God and His Messenger and the Rediscovery of P. Nessana 77 (60s ah/680 ce) /Robert Hoyland and Hannah Cotton -- 3 Jewish Christianity and Islamic Origins /Guy G. Stroumsa -- 4 A Note on the Relationship between Tafsīr and Common Understanding with Reference to Contracts of Marriage /Karen Bauer -- 5 "Earnest Money" and the Sources of Islamic Law /Gerald Hawting and David M. Eisenberg -- 6 "A Bequest May Not Exceed One-Third": An Isnād-cum-Matn Analysis and Beyond /Pavel Pavlovitch and David S. Powers -- 7 Basra and Kufa as the Earliest Centers of Islamic Legal Controversy /Christopher Melchert -- 8 God's Cleric: Al-Fuḍayl born ʿIyāḍ and the Transition from Caliphal to Prophetic Sunna /Deborah G. Tor -- 9 Aḥmad ibn Ṭūlūn and the Politics of Deference /Matthew S. Gordon -- 10 Eighth-Century Indian Astronomy in the Two Cities of Peace /Kevin van Bladel -- 11 Greek Language and Education under Early Islam /Maria Mavroudi -- 12 Kalām and the Greeks /Fritz W. Zimmermann -- 13 "Arabs" and "Iranians": The Uses of Ethnicity in the Early Abbasid Period /Michael Cooperson -- 14 The Poetics of Cultural Identity: Al-Mutanabbī among the Būyids /Margaret Larkin -- 15 Must God Tell Us the Truth? A Problem in Ashʿarī Theology /Khaled El-Rouayheb -- 16 Administrators' Time: The Social Memory of the Early Medieval State, East and West /Chris Wickham -- 17 An Eleventh-Century Justification of the Authority of Twelver Shiite Jurists /Devin J. Stewart -- 18 A Family Story: Ambiguities of Jewish Identity in Medieval Islam /David J. Wasserstein -- 19 What Happened in al-Andalus: Minorities in al-Andalus and in Christian Spain /David Abulafia -- 20 The Samaritan Version of the Esther Story /Adam Silverstein -- 21 New Evidence for the Survival of Sexually Libertine Rites among some Nuṣayrī-ʿAlawīs of the Nineteenth Century /Bella Tendler Krieger -- 22 Crone and the End of Orientalism /Chase F. Robinson -- Index.