This book is a translation of the legal articles pertaining to the books of sale, hire and loan from Majallat al-A k m al-Shar iyya, which is considered the first codified corpus of the Islamic anbal school of law, followed by a study examining and analysing issues related to the source and target texts. The importance of the book stems from the fact that it includes in its first part an English translation of all anbal rulings related to the law of transactions. It then studies in its second part crucial issues contained in the Arabic source text, such as the transformation of the language...