TY - BOOK ID - 78532067 TI - The origins and evolution of Islamic law PY - 2004 SN - 110715877X 1280749601 0511818785 0511264844 0511265565 0511263260 0511308728 0511264070 9780511264849 9780511265563 9780511263262 9780511818783 9786610749607 6610749604 0521803322 0521005809 9780521005807 9780521803328 9781280749605 9780511308727 9780511264078 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Islamic law KW - Civil law (Islamic law) KW - Law, Arab KW - Law, Islamic KW - Law in the Qurʼan KW - Sharia (Islamic law) KW - Shariʻah (Islamic law) KW - Law, Oriental KW - Law, Semitic KW - History KW - 297.15 KW - 297.15 Islam: ethiek; religieuze wetten KW - Islam: ethiek; religieuze wetten KW - Law KW - General and Others KW - DROIT ISLAMIQUE KW - HISTOIRE KW - Islam KW - Arabia KW - the Near East KW - legal history KW - Near Eastern legal cultures KW - Arabian customary law KW - Quranic reform KW - prophetic authority KW - legal theory KW - legal schools KW - law and politics KW - the State UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78532067 AB - Long before the rise of Islam in the early seventh century, Arabia had come to form an integral part of the Near East. This book, covering more than three centuries of legal history, presents an important account of how Islam developed its own law while drawing on ancient Near Eastern legal cultures, Arabian customary law and Quranic reforms. The development of the judiciary, legal reasoning and legal authority during the first century is discussed in detail as is the dramatic rise of prophetic authority, the crystallization of legal theory and the formation of the all-important legal schools. Finally the book explores the interplay between law and politics, explaining how the jurists and the ruling elite led a symbiotic existence that - seemingly paradoxically - allowed Islamic law and its application to be uniquely independent of the 'state'. ER -