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The Epistle on Legal Theory by Muhammad ibn Idris al-Shafi'i (editor); Joseph E. Lowry (editor) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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 textual interpretation to be applied to the Qur'an and prophetic Traditions, techniques for harmonizing apparently contradictory precedents, legal epistemology, rules of inference, and discussions of when legal interpretation is required. The author illustrates his theoretical claims with numerous examples drawn from nearly all areas of Islamic law, including ritual law, commercial law, tort law, and criminal law. The text thus provides an important window into both Islamic law and legal thought in particular and early Islamic intellectual history in general. The Arabic text has been established on the basis of the two most important critical editions and includes variants in the notes, w

Who reads The Epistle on Legal Theory?

Author

Muhammad ibn Idris al-Shafi'i (editor); Joseph E. Lowry (editor)

Publisher

New York University Press

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780814729311

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Law, Islam, Literary Fiction