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The Epistle on Legal Theory is the oldest surviving Arabic work on Islamic legal theory and the foundational document of Islamic jurisprudence. Its author, Muhammad ibn Idris al-Shafi'i (d. 204/820), was the eponym of the Shafi'i school of legal thought, one of the four rites in Sunni Islam. This fascinating work offers the first systematic treatment in Arabic of key issues in Islamic legal thought. These include a survey of the importance of Arabic as the language of revelation, principles of t

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Author

Muhammad ibn Idrīs al-Shāfiʿī; Joseph E. Lowry (trans.)

Publisher

New York University Press

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781479809028

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Law, Fiction, Literary Fiction

Updated

2026-03-25