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This volume introduces six texts of Islamic jurisprudence, authored by six jurists representing all four Sunni schools of Islamic law (two Hanafi, two Shafi'i, one Maliki, and one Hanbali), who lived in areas as far apart as Uzbekistan, Iraq, Syria, Gaza (Palestine), Egypt, and Algeria between the tenth and sixteenth centuries CE. My reading of these texts attempts to articulate an underlying structural interrelationship between theoretical and practical legal reasoning in the Islamic juristic tradition. This volume provides an anatomy of Islamic legal reasoning, centered on the basic concepts of human agency, responsibility, rights, legal hermeneutics, extra-textual sources of the law, and basic inquiries, such as the jurisdiction of law in Islam and the relationship between law and government and between law and theology.

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Ahmad Atif Ahmad, Ph.D. (2005) in Arabic and Islamic Studies, Harvard University, is Assistant Professor in Islamics at Macalester College, MN. His first book (in Arabic) addressed the issue of reviewing court decisions in Islamic law (Cairo, 1997).

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