Early Islamic Legal Theory : The Risala of Muhammad ibn Idris al-Shafi 1
by Joseph E. Lowry.
- Leiden : Brill, 2007.
- 443 p.
- (Studies in Islamic Law and Society : Vol.30) .
Table of Contents; Introduction Chapter 1. Shafi 1' s Concept of the Bayan Chapter 2. Hermeneutical Techniques Chapter 3. Prophetic Sunna and Hadith in the Risala Chapter 4. The Qur'an in Shafi 1' s Risala Chapter 5. Shafi 1' s Epistemology Chapter 6. Internal Evidence for the Risala's Polemical Chapter 7. Ijma in the Risala Conclusion