Disagreements of the Jurists – A Manual of Islamic Legal Theory Al–nu′man

Disagreements of the Jurists\nby al-Qadi al-Nu?man\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: al-Qadi al-Nu?man\nTitle: Disagreements of the Jurists\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Anthologies: general\nPublisher: New York University Press\nISBN-13: 9781479808076\nISBN-10: 1479808075\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nA masterful overview of Islamic law and its diversity\nAl-Qadi al-Nu''man was the chief legal theorist and ideologue of the North African Fatimid dynasty in the tenth century. This translation makes available for the first time in English his major work on Islamic legal theory (usul al-fiqh), which presents a legal model in support of the Fatimid claim to legitimate rule.\nComposed as part of a grand project to establish the theoretical bases of the official Fatimid leg.