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This introduction to Islamic jurisprudence (usul al-fiqh) summarizes its major concepts and presents the contemporary debates among historians concerning the historicity of the Islamic sources of dogma, and of the dating of early Islamic law. It describes the classical practice of the law, in the formulation and elaboration of the legal rules (fatwas, furu' works, mukhtasars and so forth) and in the paradigms of legal practice in the courts. It summarizes various types of Islamic substantive legal rules (in mu'amalat), hudud and ta'zir, bodily harm and diya, marriage and family law and some apects of economic law, in particular taxation, contracts and the marketplace.

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'an excellent introduction to Islamic law A... It fulfils its aim of providing a rounded history of the subject, combined with studies of particular areas of the law (criminal law, family law, land and tax law) [A...] a very important contribution to the field.' -Robert Gleave, University of Bristol

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Knut S. Vikor is the Director of the Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at the University of Bergen. His publications include Sufi and Scholar on the Desert Edge (Hurst, 1995).

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