Original Islam investigates the primacy of Madinan Islam and the madhhab (school of law) of its main exponent, Malik ibn Anas. It contains an annotated translation of Intisar al-faqir al-salik li-tarjih madhhab al-Imam al-kabir Malik, which was written by al-Ra'i, a fifteenth-century Andalusian scholar resident in Cairo.

This book includes:

• a comprehensive section on the scholarly credentials of the great eighth-century Madinan jurist Malik ibn Anas
• a detailed examination of a number of theoretical and practical disputed legal issues
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