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٤٨٥ 485 Further Reading The suggested readings listed below, which are meant to supplement those works found in the bibliography, include works on early Islamic intellectual history, Islamic law generally, early Islamic law, Islamic legal theory, and a few translations of works on Islamic legal theory into European languages. Islamic Intellectual History and Culture Bohas, George, et al. The Arabic Linguistic Tradition. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2006. Ess, Josef van. The Flowering of Muslim Theology. Translated by J.M. Todd. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006. Gutas, Dimitri. Greek Thought, Arabic Culture: The Graeco-Arabic Translation Movement in Baghdad and Early ʿAbbāsid Society (2nd–4th/8th–10th Centuries). London: Routledge, 1998. Schoeler, Gregor. The Oral and the Written in Early Islam. Translated by U. Vagelpohl. Edited by J.E. Montgomery. New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2006. Toorawa, Shawkat M. Ibn Abī Ṭāhir Ṭayfūr and Arabic Writerly Culture: A Ninth-Century Bookman in Baghdad. New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2005. General Introductions to Islamic Law Hallaq, Wael B. An Introduction to Islamic Law. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Schacht, Joseph. An Introduction to Islamic Law. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1964. Vikør, Knut S. Between God and the Sultan: A History of Islamic Law. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Weiss, Bernard G. The Spirit of Islamic Law. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1998. ٤٨٦ 486 Further Reading Early Islamic Law and Legal Thought Calder, Norman. Studies in Early Muslim Jurisprudence. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993. Yahia, Mohyddin. Šāfiʿī et les deux sources de la loi islamique. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2009. Islamic Legal Theory Ahmed, Rumee. Narratives of Islamic Legal Theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Ali, Mohamed M.Y. Medieval Islamic Pragmatics: Sunni Legal Theorists’ Models of Textual Communication. Richmond: Curzon, 2000. Emon, Anver M. Islamic Natural Law Theories. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. Gleave, Robert. Inevitable Doubt: Two Theories of Shīʿī Jurisprudence. Leiden: Brill, 2000. . Scripturalist Islam: The History and Doctrines of the Akhbārī Shīʿī School. Leiden: Brill, 2007. Hallaq, Wael B. Authority, Continuity and Change in Islamic Law. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Opwis, Felicitas. Maṣlaḥa and the Purpose of the Law: Islamic Discourse on Legal Change from the 4th/10th to 8th/14th Century. Leiden: Brill, 2010. Stewart, Devin J. Islamic Legal Orthodoxy: Twelver Shiite Responses to the Sunni Legal System. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1998. Weiss, Bernard G. The Search for God’s Law: Islamic Jurisprudence in the Writings of Sayf alD īn al-Āmidī. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1992. , ed. Studies in Islamic Legal Theory. Leiden: Brill, 2002. Translations Abū l-Ḥusayn al-Baṣrī. L’accord unanime de la communauté comme fondement des statuts légaux de l’Islam. Translated into French by Marie Bernand. Paris: J. Vrin, 1970. Muḥammad Bāqir al-Ṣadr. Lessons in Islamic Jurisprudence. Translated by Roy Mottahedeh. Oxford: Oneworld, 2007. Muzanī, Ismāʿīl ibn Yaḥyā al-. Kitāb al-Amr wa-l-nahy. Translated into French by R. Brunschvig. In “‘Le livre de l’ordre et de la défense’ d’al-Muzani.” Bulletin d’Études Orientales 11 (1945–6): 145–96. Shīrāzī, Abū Isḥāq al-. Kitāb al-Lumaʿ fī uṣūl al-fiqh. Translated into French by É. Chaumont. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. ...

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