Featuring over 200 key thinkers, both major and less well-known, and spanning three centuries, this is a comprehensive survey of early Shi'ite literature. Each entry includes information on further reading for the figure in question, in addition to footnotes and a full bibliography.
Featuring over 200 key thinkers, both major and less well-known, and spanning three centuries, this is a comprehensive survey of early Shi'ite literat...
This Handbook is a detailed reference source comprising of original articles covering the origins, history, theory and practice of Islamic law.
Previous publications on this topic have approached Islamic law from practically every disciplinary and pedagogical perspective (philology, history, sociology, anthropology etc.) except that of the study of law. The real challenge is that there are a number of historical and doctrinal aspects of Islamic jurisprudence that cannot be properly evaluated unless the functions and processes of legal cultures and the patterns of legal thought are also...
This Handbook is a detailed reference source comprising of original articles covering the origins, history, theory and practice of Islamic law.
