TY - BOOK ID - 38055919 TI - Narratives of Islamic legal theory PY - 2012 SN - 0191738077 0191630144 1283582228 9786613894670 0191630136 9780191738074 PB - Oxford : Oxford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Islamic law KW - Islam KW - Interpretation and construction. KW - Study and teaching. KW - Islamic studies KW - Uṣūl al-fiqh (Islamic law) KW - Uṣūl al-Fiqh UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:38055919 AB - In the critical period when Islamic law first developed, a new breed of jurists developed a genre of legal theory treatises to explore how the fundamental moral teachings of Islam might operate as a legal system. Seemingly rhetorical and formulaic, these manuals have long been overlooked for the insight they offer into the early formation of Islamic conceptions of law and its role in social life.In this book, Rumee Ahmed shatters the prevailing misconceptions of the purpose and form of the Islamic legal treatise. Ahmed describes how Muslim jurists used the genre of legal theory to argue for in ER -