Early Islamic Legal Theory The Risāla of Muḥammad Ibn Idrīs Al-Shāfiʻī

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.