Reprint. Originally published: Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1964.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-285).

Includes indexes.

1. Introductory -- Historical section -- 2. Pre-Islamic background -- 3. Muhammad and the Koran -- 4. The first century of Islam -- 5. The Umayyad administration and the first specialists -- 6. The ancient schools of law, the opposition movements and traditionists -- 7. Early systematic reasoning; lawyers of the second century -- 8. Islamic law under the first 'Abbasids; legislation and administration -- 9. The later schools of law and their 'classical' theory -- 10. The 'closing of the gate of independent reasoning' and the further development of doctrine -- 11. Theory and practice -- 12. Purist reactions -- 13. Islamic law in the Ottoman Empire -- 14. Anglo-Muhammadan law and the Droit Musulman Algerien -- 15. Modernist legislation -- Systematic Section -- 16. Original sources -- 17. General concepts -- 18. Persons -- 19. Property -- 20. Obligations in general -- 21. Obligations and contracts in particular -- 22. Family -- 23. Inheritance -- 24. Penal law -- 25. Procedure -- 26. The nature of Islamic law -- Chronological table -- Index and glossary of Arabic technical terms.

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