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Author: Aron Zysow
Publisher: Lockwood Press
Imprint: Lockwood Press
Dimensions:
Width: 17.80cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 25.40cm
Weight: 0.626kg
ISBN: 9781937040093
ISBN 10: 1937040097
Pages: 360
Publication Date: 01 October 2013
Audience:
College/higher education
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
'The importance of The Economy of Certainty to the study of Islamic legal theory is a tribute to the precision employed at its inception... In many disciplines, thirty-year-old research borders on being antique; however, when read today, Zysow's presentation retains both its originality and its authority... It has been read and reread by those working on us.u-l, and now, hopefully, those working in linked fields of enquiry will be able to benefit from Zysow's masterly account of the epistemological and theological factors which make us.u-l al-fiqh such adistinctive and absorbing theory of law.' (Robert Gleave, University of Exeter) 'It is no exaggeration to say that Zysow's contribution is the single most important work on Islamic legal theory (us.u-l al-fiqh) in any western language.' (Marc Herman, Center for Jewish Law and Contemporary Civilization)
The importance of The Economy of Certainty to the study of Islamic legal theory is a tribute to the precision employed at its inception... In many disciplines, thirty-year-old research borders on being antique; however, when read today, Zysow's presentation retains both its originality and its authority... It has been read and reread by those working on us?l, and now, hopefully, those working in linked fields of enquiry will be able to benefit from Zysow's masterly account of the epistemological and theological factors which make us?l al-fiqhsuch adistinctive and absorbing theory of law. -Robert Gleave, University of Exeter
Author Information
Aron Zysow received his A.B. (Classics), Ph.D. (Islamic Studies), and J.D. from Harvard. From 2000 to 2005 he served as Research Associate for the Islamic Legal Studies Program at Harvard Law School. Before that he taught Arabic and Islamic Studies at the University of Washington in Seattle and Washington University in St. Louis and commercial law at Baruch College, City University of New York. Prior to his academic career he worked as an attorney in New York City. His main academic interests are Islamic law, particularly legal theory, and theology. He is a former fellow of The Institute for the Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia (TRI) at Princeton University, where he also taught in the Department of Near Eastern Studies.
