Mālik and Medina: Islamic Legal Reasoning in the Formative Period (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004211407)

This book studies the legal reasoning of Mālik ibn Anas (d. 179 H./795 C.E.) in the Muwaṭṭa' and Mudawwana. Although focusing on Mālik, the book presents a broad comparative study of legal reasoning in the first three centuries of Islam. It reexamines the role of considered opinion (ra'y), dissent, and legal ḥadīths and challenges the paradigm that Muslim jurists ultimately concurred on a "four-source" (Qurʾān, sunna, consensus, and analogy) theory of law. Instead, Mālik and Medina emphasizes that the four Sunnī schools of law (madhāhib) emerged during the formative period as distinctive, consistent, yet largely unspoken legal methodologies and persistently maintained their independence and continuity over the next millennium.

Author: Umar F. Abd-Allah Wymann-Landgraf
ISBN-10: 9004211403
ISBN-13: 9789004211407
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 03/22/2013
Pages: 554
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.13lbs
Size: 9.25h x 6.10w x 1.25d