Joseph Edmund Lowry

This book offers a comprehensive reinterpretation of Sh?fi 's "Ris?la" and shows how Sh?fi sought to formulate an all-embracing hermeneutic that portrays the law as a tightly interlocking structure organized around defined interactions of the Qur n and the Sunna.

The Risāla of Muḥammad Ibn Idrīs Al-Shāfiʻī

Early Islamic Legal Theory

Roger M. A. Allen

Roger Allen

Terri DeYoung

Mary S. St. Germain

Devin J. Stewart

The essays, which discuss authors in a variety of literary genres and across the spectrum of the region concerned-from Iraq in the East to Tunisia in the West-provide clear evidence of the gradually changing roles of the indigenous and the imported which are an intrinsic feature of the movement known in Arabic as al-bahada (cultural revival) and the way in which Arab litterateurs chose to respond to the inspiration that such changes inevitably engendered. --

Joseph Edmund Lowry

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