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    <title>Early Islamic legal theory</title>
    <subTitle>the Ris�ala of Mu�hammad ibn Idr�is al-Sh�afi��i</subTitle>
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    <namePart>Lowry, Joseph E. (Joseph Edmund)</namePart>
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    <publisher>Brill</publisher>
    <dateIssued>2007</dateIssued>
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    <extent>xiv, 443 p.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>Sh�afi��i's concept of the Bay�an -- Two hermeneutical techniques -- Prophetic sunna and hadith in the Ris�ala -- The Qur�an in Sh�afi��i's Ris�ala --  Sh�afi��i's epistemology -- Internal evidence for the Ris�ala's polemical context -- Ijm�a in the Ris�ala -- The Ris�ala and its relationship to mature Uml al-Fiqh.</tableOfContents>
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  <note>Includes bibliographical references (p. [387]-399) and indexes.</note>
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      <namePart>Sh�afi��i, Mu�hammad ibn Idr�is</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">767 or 8-820</namePart>
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    <topic>Islamic law</topic>
    <topic>Interpretation and construction</topic>
    <topic>Early works to 1800</topic>
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    <topic>Shafiites</topic>
    <topic>Early works to 1800</topic>
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      <title>Studies in Islamic law and society ; v. 30</title>
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