'Abd al-Rahman b. 'Amr al-Awza'i

Steven Judd is Professor of Middle East History at Southern Connecticut State University. He has been studying early Islamic law and theology, especially during the Umayyad period, for over twenty years, and is the author of Religious Scholars and the Umayyads. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut.

• ForewordIntroductionAl-Awza‘i’s Biography 1  THE SOURCES2  AL-AWZA‘I’S JURISPRUDENCELaw in the Formative Period of IslamAl-Awza‘i’s FiqhEvaluating Al-Awza‘i as a Legal Scholar3  AL-AWZA‘I’S SCHOLARLY MILIEU Pro-Umayyad Friends and RivalsThe Hanafis: Al-Awza‘i’s FoesThe Malikis4  AL-AWZA‘I’S THEOLOGYDamascus as a Theological CenterAl-Awza‘i’s Theological ViewsAl-Awza‘i and the QadaritesConclusions: Al-Awza‘i’s Theology5  AL-AWZA‘I AND THE POLITICAL ELITE Al-Awza‘i and the UmayyadsSurviving the Fall of the Umayyads and the Abbasid RevolutionAl-Awza‘i and the AbbasidsAl-Awza‘i’s Post-Revolutionary LifeConclusion: Evaluating Al-Awza‘i as a Political Figure6  AL-AWZA‘I’S LEGACY Al-Awza‘i’s StudentsAl-Awza‘i’s Regional PersistenceAl-Awza‘i’s Legal LegacyAl-Awza‘i in Modern Times ConclusionBibliographyIndex

‘Despite the fragmentary evidence at his disposal, Judd has given us a nuanced and well-rounded portrait of the life and teaching of an important but largely neglected jurist and theologian of the formative period of Islamic legal thought.’