Authority, Continuity and Change In Islamic Law Antonin Scalia Mohammed Rustom

Mohammed Rustom

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Authority, Continuity and Change In Islamic Law Antonin Scalia Mohammed RustomIn this path breaking book, the author shows how authority guaranteed both continuity and change in Islamic law. Hallaq demonstrates that it was the construction of the absolutist authority of the school founder, an image which he suggests was actually developed later in history, that maintained the foundations of school methodology and hermeneutics. The defense of that methodology gave rise to an infinite variety of individual legal opinions,