A masterful overview of Islamic law and its diversity Al-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. Composed as
part of a grand project to establish the theoretical bases of the
official Fatimid legal school, Disagreements of the Jurists
expounds a distinctly Shi'i system of hermeneutics. The work begins
with a discussion of the historical causes of jurisprudential
divergence in the first Islamic centuries and goes on to engage,
point by point, with the specific interpretive methods of Sunni
legal theory. The text thus preserves important passages from
several Islamic legal theoretical works no longer extant, and in
the process throws light on a critical stage in the development of
Islamic legal theory that would otherwise be lost to history. An
English-only edition.
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