The Canonization of Islamic LawThe Canonization of Islamic Law tells the story of the birth of classical Islamic law in the eighth and ninth centuries CE. It shows how an oral normative tradition embedded in communal practice was transformed into a systematic legal science defined by hermeneutic analysis of a clearly demarcated scriptural canon. This transformation was inaugurated by the innovative legal theory of Muammad b. Idrs al Shfi (d. 820 CE), and it took place against the

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the book brings together in a single theoretical framework debates on the diversity of Islam

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