Yasin Dutton is Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, UK, and Emeritus Professor of Arabic Studies at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.

• Introduction1. The Man and His Family2. His Teachers3. The Muwatta' and Its Transmissions4. The 'Amal of the People of Medina5. Controversies, Ancient and ModernConclusionGlossaryBibliographyIndex

Yasin Dutton’s Early Islam in Medina is a survey of the traditional as well as modern scholarship on the nature of legal interpretation and practice in early Islam before the consolidation of the formal schools of law. Eschewing complex historical and legal debates that have rendered scholarship on early Islam impenetrable to a general audience, Dutton’s text fills a lacuna by offering an accessible defence of the Malikite school and its foundation in Madinan practice rather than hadith texts.

Yasin Dutton is Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, UK, and Emeritus Professor of Arabic Studies at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.

• Introduction1. The Man and His Family2. His Teachers3. The Muwatta' and Its Transmissions4. The 'Amal of the People of Medina5. Controversies, Ancient and ModernConclusionGlossaryBibliographyIndex

Yasin Dutton’s Early Islam in Medina is a survey of the traditional as well as modern scholarship on the nature of legal interpretation and practice in early Islam before the consolidation of the formal schools of law. Eschewing complex historical and legal debates that have rendered scholarship on early Islam impenetrable to a general audience, Dutton’s text fills a lacuna by offering an accessible defence of the Malikite school and its foundation in Madinan practice rather than hadith texts.

Yasin Dutton is Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, UK, and Emeritus Professor of Arabic Studies at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.

• Introduction1. The Man and His Family2. His Teachers3. The Muwatta' and Its Transmissions4. The 'Amal of the People of Medina5. Controversies, Ancient and ModernConclusionGlossaryBibliographyIndex

Yasin Dutton’s Early Islam in Medina is a survey of the traditional as well as modern scholarship on the nature of legal interpretation and practice in early Islam before the consolidation of the formal schools of law. Eschewing complex historical and legal debates that have rendered scholarship on early Islam impenetrable to a general audience, Dutton’s text fills a lacuna by offering an accessible defence of the Malikite school and its foundation in Madinan practice rather than hadith texts.