An Introduction to Islamic Law by Wael Hallaq

An Introduction to Islamic Law by Wael Hallaq

This is his first book written for a general audience. In part, it is an abridgment of his much more detailed recent book "Shari‘a: Theory, Practice, Transformations" which omits Arabic terminology, occasional theoretical obscurities, and a whole lot of footnotes. It is also more than that. This book shows that Hallaq can manage a real page-turner -- in any case, for those interested in the subject.

What this book is emphatically not is a collection of rules plucked from classical law manuals, as many other texts on this subject are. It examines the intellectual underpinnings of classical Islamic law, complementing the more technical introduction to the subject by Bernard Weiss ("The Spirit of Islamic Law"). It spends even more time examining how that law fit into the classical legal system and the broader society.

What emerges is a portrait of a pre-modern legal tradition viewed on its own terms, rather than by projecting modern ideas about law and state onto snippets of medieval legal writings. Hallaq wants you to share his feeling that it was a pretty impressive one and he makes a persuasive case.

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