Islamic Legal Thought: A Compendium of Muslim Jurists

by David Powers

In Islamic Legal Thought: A Compendium of Muslim Jurists, twenty-three scholars each contribute a chapter on a distinguished Muslim jurist. The volume is organized chronologically and it includes jurists who represent the formative, classical and modern periods of Islamic legal thought. Each chapter contains both a biography of an individual jurist and a translated sample of his work. The biographies emphasize the scholarly milieu in which...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004254528
• ISBN13: 9789004254527
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 606 Pages
• Weight: 2.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.4" x 9.5"