Contents

Chapters in this book

1. I-IV I
2. Foreword V
3. Contents VII
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I. The Origins of Islamic Law
6. Preliminaries 51
7. Chapter 1: Special Indicators of Reception 59
8. Chapter 2: Circumstances of Reception 77
9. Chapter 3: Comparative Analysis 97
10. Part II. Islamic Imperial Law
11. Preliminaries 261
12. Chapter 4: Ideological Basis 265
13. Chapter 5: Codification and Dissemination 279
14. Part III. From Imperial to Jurists' Law
15. Preliminaries 313
16. Chapter 6: The Byzantine Factor 321
17. Chapter 7: The Origins of Uṣūl al-fiqh 517
18. Chapter 8: The Islamic Organon 573
19. Conclusion 617
20. Appendix 1: Cases 627
21. Appendix 2: Judges 651
22. Appendix 3: Terms 663
23. Abbreviations 681
24. Bibliography 687
25. Index of Persons 747