Previous ed.: Cambrige, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1996.

The Anthropology of Islamic Law shows how hermeneutic theory and practice theory can be brought together to analyze cultural, legal, and religious traditions. T

This book considers the rarely studied but pervasive concepts of doubt that medieval Muslim jurists used to resolve problematic criminal cases.

Text and Interpretation: Imam Ja'far al-Sadiq and his Legacy in Islamic Law examines the main characteristics of the legal thought of Imam Ja'far al-Sadiq, a pr

Focuses on a Muslim legal science known in Arabic as usul al-fiqh. Whereas the kindred science of fiqh is concerned with the articulation of actual rules of law