Custom in Islamic Law and Legal Theory: The Development of the Concepts of `Urf and `Adah in the Islamic Legal Tradition (Palgrave Series in Islamic Theology, Law, and History) by Ayman Shabana
English | 2010 | ISBN: 0230105920 | 262 Pages | PDF | 5.4 MB
This book explores the relationship between custom and Islamic law and seeks to uncover the role of custom in the construction of legal rulings. On a deeper level, however, it deals with the perennial problem of change and continuity in the Islamic legal tradition (or any tradition for that matter).