The Epistle on Legal Theory: A Translation of Al-Shafi'i's Risalah: 42 (Library of Arabic Literature)

by Joseph E. Lowry (Author)

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  2015

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  The Epistle on Legal Theory is the oldest surviving Arabic work on Islamic legal theory and the foundational document of Islamic jurisprudence. Its author, Muhammad ibn Idris al-Shafi'i (d 204 H/820 AD), was the eponym of the Shafi'i school of legal thought, one of the four rites in Sunni Islam. This book deals with this work.