The Formation of Islamic Hermeneutics: How Sunni Legal Theorists Imagined a Revealed Law - American Oriental Series - David R. Vishanoff - Books - American Oriental Society - 9780940490314 - June 30, 2011
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The Formation of Islamic Hermeneutics: How Sunni Legal Theorists Imagined a Revealed Law - American Oriental Series


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This book is the first historical analysis of those parts of Islamic legal theory that deal with the language of revelation, and a milestone in reconstructing the missing history of legal theory in the ninth and tenth centuries. It offers a fresh interpretation of al-Shafii’s seminal thought.


340 pages

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released June 30, 2011
ISBN13 9780940490314
Publishers American Oriental Society
Pages 340
Dimensions 261 × 184 × 31 mm   ·   900 g