viii, 304 pages ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-285) and index

The pre-Islamic background -- Muhammad and the Koran -- The first century of Islam -- The Umayyad administration and the first specialists -- The ancient schools of law, the opposition movements and the Traditionists -- Early systematic reasoning; lawyers of the second century -- Islamic law under the first Abbasids; legislation and administration -- The later schools of law and their classical theory -- The closing of the gate of independent reasoning and the further development of doctrine -- Theory and practice -- Purist reactions -- Islamic law in the Ottoman Empire -- Anglo-Muhammadan law and Droit Musulman Algerien -- Modernist legislation -- The original sources -- General concepts -- Persons -- Property -- Obligations in general -- Obligations and contracts in particular -- Family -- Inheritance -- Penal law -- Procedure -- The nature of Islamic law

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