The History of an Islamic School of Law: The Early Spread of Hanafism (Harvard Series in Islamic Law, three)

The History of an Islamic School of Law: The Early Spread of Hanafism (Harvard Series in Islamic Law, 3)

The Hanafi school of law is one of the oldest legal schools of Islam, coming into existence in the eighth century in Iraq, and surviving up to the present. So closely is the early development of the Hanafi school interwoven with non-legal spheres, such as the political, social, and theological, that the study of it is essential to a proper understanding of medieval Islamic history. Using rich material drawn mainly from medieval Islamic biographical dictionaries, Nurit Tsafrir offers a thorou

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