Islamic Legal Thought

David S. Powers, Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Cornell University is the author of Studies in Qur’an and Hadith: The Formation of the Islamic Law of Inheritance (1986); Law, Society and Culture in the Maghrib, 1300-1500 (2002); Muhammad is Not the Father of Any of Your Men: The Making of the Last Prophet (2009); editor of Islamic Law and Society.Oussama Arabi, Adjunct Professor of Inter-Cultural Studies, Haigazian University, has contributed a number of articles to scholarly journals and is the author of Wittgenstein, langage et ontologie (1982); Karl Popper, Madkhal ilā al-ʿAqlāniyya al-Naqdiyya (1994); Studies in Modern Islamic Law and Jurisprudence (2001).Susan A. Spectorsky, Associate Professor Emerita, Queens College, City University of New York is the author of Chapters on Marriage and Divorce: Responses of Ibn Hanbal and Ibn Rahwayh (1993); Women in Classical Islamic Law: A Survey of the Sources (2010).

• PrefaceList of ContributorsIntroduction - Oussama Arabi, David S. Powers, Susan SpectorskyPart 1 - Formative Period (150-261/767-874)Chapter 1. Abū Ḥanīfa (d. 150/767) - Hiroyuki YanagihashiChapter 2. Mālik b. Anas (d. 179/795) - Yossef RapoportChapter 3. al-Shāfiʿī (d. 204/820) - Joseph E. LowryChapter 4. Saḥnūn (d. 240/854) - Jonathan E. BrockoppChapter 5. Ibn Ḥanbal (d. 243/855) - Susan SpectorskyChapter 6. al-Khaṣṣāf (d. 261/874) - Peter C. HenniganPart 2 - Classical Period (300-1213/912-1798)Chapter 7. Abū Jaʿfar al-Ṭaḥāwī (d. 321/933) - Nurit TsafrirChapter 8. al-Jaṣṣās (d. 370/981) - Murteza BedirChapter 9. al-Sharῑf al-Murtaḍā (d. 436/1044) - Devin J. StewartChapter 10. Ibn Ḥazm al-Qurṭubῑ (d. 456/1064) - Samir KaddouriChapter 11. al-Sarakhsī (d. 483/1090) - Osman TaştanChapter 12. Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī (d. 505/1111) - Ebrahim MoosaChapter 13. Ibn Rushd al-Jadd (d. 520/1126) - Delfina Serrano RuanoChapter 14. Qāḍī ʿIyāḍ (d. 544/1149) - Camilo Gómez-RivasChapter 15. Sayf al-Dῑn al-Āmidī (d. 631/1233) - Bernard WeissChapter 16. Abū Isḥāq al-Shāṭibī (d. 790/1388) - Muhammad Khalid MasudChapter 17. Aḥmad al-Wanshārīsī (d. 914/1505) - David S. PowersChapter 18. Ebu’s-suʿud (d. 982/1574) - Colin ImberChapter 19. Muḥammad Bāqir al-Bihbihānī (d. 1205/1791) - Robert Gleave Part 3 - Modern Period (1798-present)Chapter 20. al-Mahdῑ al-Wazzānī (d. 1342/1923) - Etty TeremChapter 21. Muḥammad Rashīd Riḍā (1865-1935) - Mahmoud HaddadChapter 22. ʿAbd al-Razzāq al-Sanhūrī (d. 1971) - Oussama ArabiChapter 23. Ḥasan al-Turābī (1932 - ) - Aharon LayishReferencesIndices

“Islamic Legal Thought is a well-rounded survey of the history of Islamic law. Its scope is broad and the individual chapters are, on balance, well-structured and give the reader a good introduction to the life and thought of the scholar under consideration.” - Felicitas Opwis, in: Ilahiyat Studies 9.2 (2018), 293-297“…this book is a significant landmark in the representation of Islamic legal thought and its history. Its scope and scale by themselves demonstrate its monumentality […]. In conclusion, this volume is a major contribution.” - Scott Morrison, in: The Cambridge Law Journal 73.2 (2014), p. 446-449“… a major contribution to the field. […] While the volume as a whole will appeal primarily to specialists in Islamic legal history, the individual chapters are engaging and accessible enough for use in the classroom and by non-specialists.” - Jocelyn Hendrickson, in: Journal of Near Eastern Studies 74.2 (2015) p. 383-386"On saura gré aux Éd. de ce volume d’avoir mis à la disposition des étudiants et des chercheurs un instrument de travail aussi stimulant qu’utile." - J. Dean, in: Revue d’histoire et de philosophie religieuses2014, Tome 94 n° 4, p. 493-494