The Origins of Islamic Jurisprudence: Meccan Fiqh Before the Classical Schools (Islamic History and Civilization)

Table of Contents The Origins of Islamic Jurisprudence : Meccan Fiqh Before the Classical Schools by Motzki, Harald Terms of Use Preface to the English Edition p. ix Introduction p. xi Chapter 1 The Beginnings of Islamic Jurisprudence in the Research of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries p. 1 Chapter 2 New Sources for the History of the Beginnings of Islamic Jurisprudence p. 51 Chapter 3 The Development of Islamic Jurisprudence in Mecca to the Middle of the Second/Eighth Century p. 75 Chapter 4 The Beginnings of Islamic Jurisprudence p. 295 Afterword p. 299 Bibliography p. 301 Index p. 311 Descriptive content provided by Syndetics"! a Bowker service. Summary The Origins of Islamic Jurisprudence : Meccan Fiqh Before the Classical Schools by Motzki, Harald Terms of use The current view among Western scholars of Islam concerning the early development of Islamic jurisprudence was shaped by Joseph Schacht s famous study on the subject published 50 years ago. Since then new sources became available which make a critical review of his theories possible and desirable. This volume uses one of these sources to reconstruct the development of jurisprudence at Mecca, virtually unknown until now, from the beginnings until the middle of the second Islamic century. New methods of analysis are developed and tested in order to date the material contained in the earliest compilations of legal traditions more properly. As a result the origins of Islamic jurisprudence can be dated much earlier than claimed by Schacht and his school. Descriptive content provided by Syndetics"! a Bowker service "The current view among Western scholars of Islam concerning the early development of Islamic jurisprudence was shaped by Joseph Schacht's famous study on the subject published fifty years ago. Since then new sources became available which make a critical review of his theories possible and desirable. This volume uses one of these sources to reconstruct the development of jurisprudence at Mecca, virtually unknown until now, from the beginnings until the middle of the second Islamic century. New methods of analysis are developed and tested in order to date the material contained in the earliest compilations of legal traditions more properly. As a result the origins of Islamic jurisprudence can be dated much earlier than claimed by Schacht and his school."--BOOK JACKET