Mālik and Medina

Biographical note Readership Table of contents

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Book

Pages, Illustrations:

Approx. 680 pp.

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BRILL

Language:

English

Biographical note

Umar F. Abd-Allah Wymann-Landgraf (Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1978) taught at Windsor, Temple, Michigan, and King Abd al-Aziz universities. He currently teaches at Darul Qasim (Chicago) and has published several books and articles related to Islam and Islamic studies.

Readership

Academic libraries and institutions, undergraduates, graduates, post-graduates, instructors, professors, and specialists as well as educated laypersons interested in Islamic law, ḥadīth literature, general Islamic studies, and the history of law.

Acknowledgements
Introduction

PART I
Chapter I: Mālik in Medina
Chapter II: An overview of Mālik’s Legal Reasoning
Chapter III: Medinese Praxis through the Eyes of Others
Chapter IV: Medinese Praxis in the Eyes of the Mālikī Tradition

PART II
Chapter V: Mālik’s 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 ʿIndanā

Conclusion: Mālik and Medina in Perspective
Bibliography
Index

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