Islamic jurisprudence and its roots in the classical and intermediate eras of Islam

Overview of the book Jurisprudence and its Foundations in the Classical and Middle Islamic Era - Wael Hallaq: This book includes twelve scholarly papers by Wael Hallaq (1955-) published in various scientific journals between 1984 and 1993. These papers make an important contribution to our understanding of Islamic jurisprudence and legal/fiqh reasoning, in a period extending from the eighth to the sixteenth century AD; Hallaq relied on a wide range of original sources to provide new interpretations of those texts, and to build a solid evaluation of contemporary studies.