The Second Formation of Islamic Law offers a new periodization of Islamic legal history in the eastern Islamic lands.

The classic introduction to Islamic law, tracing its development from its origins,through the medieval period, to its place in modern Islam.

Ahmed El Shamsy's The Canonization of Islamic Law is a detailed history of the birth of classical Islamic law. It shows how Islamic law and its institutions eme

Melchert traces the emergence of jurisprudence by h ad th, the personalization of the old regional schools in response, and finally the emergence of the classic

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