On Schacht's Origins of Muhammadan Jurisprudence

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by Muhammad Mustafa Al-Azami

Independent Publishers Group

Due/Published August 1999, 237 pages, paper

ISBN 0946621462

This in-depth study, carried out by one of Islam's leading scholars, presents a detailed analysis and critique of the classic orientalist work, Schacht's Origin of Muhammadan Jurisprudence. Azami's work examines the sources used by Schacht to develop his thesis on the relation of Islamic Law to the Qur'an, and exposes fundamental flaws in Schacht's methodology that lead to conclusions unsupported by the texts examined. This book is an important contribution to Islamic legal studies from an Islamic perspective.