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MÄlik and Medina
Islamic Legal Reasoning in the Formative Period
Series: - Islamic History and Civilization, Volume: 101
This book studies the legal reasoning of MÄlik ibn Anas (d. 179 H./795 C.E.) in the Muwaá¹á¹aâ and Mudawwana. Although focusing on MÄlik, the book presents a broad comparative study of legal reasoning in the first three centuries of Islam. It reexamines the role of considered opinion (raây), dissent, and legal ḥadÄ«ths and challenges the paradigm that Muslim jurists ultimately concurred on a âfour-sourceâ (QurʾÄn, sunna, consensus, and analogy) theory of law. Instead, MÄlik and Medina emphasizes that the four SunnÄ« schools of law (madhÄhib) emerged during the formative period as distinctive, consistent, yet largely unspoken legal methodologies and persistently maintained their independence and continuity over the next millennium.
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Dr. Umar F. Abd-Allah Wymann-Landgraf (Ph.D, University of Chicago, 1978) taught at the Universities of Windsor, Temple, Michigan, and King Abdul-Aziz. He has authored numerous books and articles on Islam and Islamic studies and is currently engaged in independent research, writing, and teaching on Islamic theology, spirituality, law, and history.
ââ¦an enormously important study of early Islamic law that does for the MÄlikÄ« school what has not been achieved for any of the other schools, namely, providing a systematic analysis of its foundational texts of positive law.â - Ahmed El Shamsy, in: Ilahiyat Studies 5/1 (2014), pp. 126-131.
"MÄlik and Medina demonstrates the profound value of reading classical works of Islamic law thoroughly and paying close attention to their authors' technical terms. No contemporary reading of the Muwaá¹á¹a in Western scholarship comes close to what Wymann-Landgraf has accomplished. The author is to be praised for publishing his ground-breaking research, which also engages in secondary literatures in German, English, and Italian..." - Scott C. Lucas, University of Arizona, Tucson, in: Journal of the American Oriental Society 137/3 (2017)
"MÄlik and Medina demonstrates the profound value of reading classical works of Islamic law thoroughly and paying close attention to their authors' technical terms. No contemporary reading of the Muwaá¹á¹a in Western scholarship comes close to what Wymann-Landgraf has accomplished. The author is to be praised for publishing his ground-breaking research, which also engages in secondary literatures in German, English, and Italian..." - Scott C. Lucas, University of Arizona, Tucson, in: Journal of the American Oriental Society 137/3 (2017)
Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART I
Chapter I: MÄlik in Medina
Chapter II: An overview of MÄlikâs Legal Reasoning
Chapter III: Medinese Praxis through the Eyes of Others
Chapter IV: Medinese Praxis in the Eyes of the MÄlikÄ« Tradition
PART II
Chapter V: MÄlikâs Terminology
Chapter VII: the Sunna-Terms
Chapter VII: Terms Referring to the People of Knowledge in Medina
Chapter VIII: References to Medinese Praxis
Chapter IX: Amr-Terms Supported by Local Consensus
Chapter X: AN: Al-Amr Ê¿IndanÄ
Conclusion: MÄlik and Medina in Perspective
Bibliography
Index
Introduction
PART I
Chapter I: MÄlik in Medina
Chapter II: An overview of MÄlikâs Legal Reasoning
Chapter III: Medinese Praxis through the Eyes of Others
Chapter IV: Medinese Praxis in the Eyes of the MÄlikÄ« Tradition
PART II
Chapter V: MÄlikâs Terminology
Chapter VII: the Sunna-Terms
Chapter VII: Terms Referring to the People of Knowledge in Medina
Chapter VIII: References to Medinese Praxis
Chapter IX: Amr-Terms Supported by Local Consensus
Chapter X: AN: Al-Amr Ê¿IndanÄ
Conclusion: MÄlik and Medina in Perspective
Bibliography
Index
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