M Lik and Medina: Islamic Legal Reasoning in the Formative Period

This book studies the legal reasoning of M lik ibn Anas (d. 179 H./795 C.E.) in the "Muwa a " and "Mudawwana." Although focusing on M lik, the book presents a broad comparative study of legal reasoning in the first three centuries of Islam. It reexamines the role of considered opinion ("ra y"), diss [...]
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This book studies the legal reasoning of M lik ibn Anas (d. 179 H./795 C.E.) in the "Muwa a " and "Mudawwana." Although focusing on M lik, the book presents a broad comparative study of legal reasoning in the first three centuries of Islam. It reexamines the role of considered opinion ("ra y"), dissent, and legal " ad ths" and challenges the paradigm that Muslim jurists ultimately concurred on a four-source (Qur n, "sunna," consensus, and analogy) theory of law. Instead, "M lik and Medina" emphasizes that the four Sunn schools of law ("madh hib") emerged during the formative period as distinctive, consistent, yet largely unspoken legal methodologies and persistently maintained their independence and continuity over the next millennium.