Mālik and Medina : : Islamic legal reasoning in the formative period / / by Umar F. Abd-Allah Wymann-Landgraf.

• Superior document: Islamic history and civilization ; v. 101
• Author: Abd-Allah, Umar F.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : Brill,, 2013.
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Islamic History and Civilization 101.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (566 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Introduction /; 1. Mālik in Medina /; 2. An Overview of Mālik’s Legal Reasoning /; 3. Critiques of Medinese Praxis /; 4. Medinese Praxis in the Eyes of Its Advocates /; 5. Mālik’s Terminology /; 6. The Sunna-Terms /; 7. Terms Referring to the People of Knowledge in Medina /; 8. References to Medinese Praxis /; 9. Amr-Terms Supported by Local Consensus /; 10. AN: Al-Amr ʿIndanā /; Conclusion /; Bibliography /; Index /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004247882
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: by Umar F. Abd-Allah Wymann-Landgraf.

This book studies the legal reasoning of Mālik ibn Anas (d. 179 H./795 C.E.) in the Muwaṭṭa’ and Mudawwana . Although focusing on Mālik, the book presents a broad comparative study of legal reasoning in the first three centuries of Islam. It reexamines the role of considered opinion ( ra’y ), dissent, and legal ḥadīths and challenges the paradigm that Muslim jurists ultimately concurred on a “four-source” (Qurʾān, sunna , consensus, and analogy) theory of law. Instead, Mālik and Medina emphasizes that the four Sunnī schools of law ( madhāhib ) emerged during the formative period as distinctive, consistent, yet largely unspoken legal methodologies and persistently maintained their independence and continuity over the next millennium.