Law and Tradition in Classical Islamic Thought

Introduction PART I: SOURCE STUDIES 1. The Ab? Bas?r Tradition: Qur??nic Verses on the Merits of the Sh??a; E.Kohlberg 2. Criteria for Emending the Text of the Qur'an; B.Sadeki 3. Mu??wiya in the Hij?z : The Study of a Tradition; N.Haider PART II: SHI'I TRADITION 4. The Kit?b al-was.iyya of ??s? b. al-Mustaf?d:The History of a Text; H. Ansari 5. Women in Im?m? Biographical Collections; A. Sayeed 6. Why Incline to the Left in Prayer? Sectarianism, Dialectic, and Archaeology in Im?m? Sh??ism; M. Cook PART III: ISLAMIC LEGAL TRADITIONS 7. Dissent and Uncertainty in the Process of Legal Norm Construction in Muslim Sunn? Law; B. Johansen 8. Islamic Legal Minimalism: Legal Maxims and Lawmaking When Jurists Disappear; I.A. Rabb 9. Cultivating Human Rights: Islamic Law and the Humanist Imperative; K.A.El Fadl PART IV: PHILOSOPHICAL TRADITIONS 10. Yah. y? b. ?Ad?'s Discussion of the Prolegomena to the Study of a Philosophical Text; R. Wisnovsky 11. Two Commentaries on Najm al-D?n al-K?tib?'s al-Shamsiyya, Copied in the Hand of David b. Joshua Maimonides (fl. ca. 1335–1410 CE ); S. Schmidtke 12. Logic in the Khayr?b?d? School of India: A Preliminary Exploration; A. Ahmed PART V: HISTORICAL TRADITIONS 13. The Eastern Travels of Solomon: Reimagining Persepolis and the Iranian Past; R. Mottahedeh 14. Al-Hasan b. M?s? al-Nawbakht? on the Views of Astronomers and Astrologers; W. Madelung 15. Conversion and Law: A Muslim-Christian Comparison; R. Bulliet PART VI: THE SCHOLARLY OUTPUT OF PROFESSOR HOSSEIN MODARRESSI Bibliography of Works by Professor Hossein Modarressi; I.A.Rabb and H. Ansari A Bibliographical Note on the Persian Works; H. Kamaly Contributors Index