Robert G. Hoyland

Behnam Sadeghi

Asad Q. Ahmed

Adam Silverstein

Essays in Honor of Professor Patricia Crone

Islamic Cultures, Islamic Contexts

Michael Bonner

Michael A. Cook

Asad Ahmed

Bringing together the expansive scholarly expertise of former students of Professor Michael Allan Cook, this volume contains highly original articles in Islamic history, law, and thought. The contributions range from studies in the pre-Islamic calendar, to the "blood-money group" in Islamic law, to transformations in Arabic logic.

Studies in History, Law, and Thought in Honor of Professor Michael Allan Cook

The Islamic Scholarly Tradition

This collected volume brings together a range of articles in honor of Professor Patricia Crone.

This pioneering study examines the process of reasoning in Islamic law. Some of the key questions addressed here include whether sacred law operates differently from secular law, why laws change or stay the same and how different cultural and historical settings impact the development of legal rulings. In order to explore these questions, the author examines the decisions of thirty jurists from the largest legal tradition in Islam: the Hanafi school of law. He traces their rulings on the question of women and communal prayer across a very broad period of time - from the eighth to the eighteenth century - to demonstrate how jurists interpreted the law and reconciled their decisions with the scripture and the sayings of the Prophet. The result is a fascinating overview of how Islamic law has evolved and the thinking behind individual rulings.

Women and Prayer in the Legal Tradition

The Logic of Law Making in Islam

Behnam Sadeghi

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