Contents

Preface

List of Contributors

Introduction

Part One Formative Period (150–261/767–874)

Chapter One Abū Ḥanīfa (d. 150/767)

Chapter Two Mālik b. Anas (d. 179/795)

Chapter Three al-Shāfi'ī (d. 204/820)

Chapter Four Saḥnūn b. Sa'īd (d. 240/854)

Chapter Five Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal (d. 243/855)

Chapter Six al-Khaṣṣāf (d. 261/874)

Part Two Classical Period (300–1213/912–1798)

Chapter Seven Abū Ja'far al-Ṭaḥāwī (d. 321/933)

Chapter Eight al-Jaṣṣāṣ (d. 370/981)

Chapter Nine al-Sharīf al-Murtaḍā (d. 436/1044)

Chapter Ten Ibn Ḥazm al-Qurṭubī (d. 456/1064)

Chapter Eleven al-Sarakhsī (d. 483/1090)

Chapter Twelve Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī (d. 505/1111)

Chapter Thirteen Ibn Rushd al-Jadd (d. 520/1126)

Chapter Fourteen Qāḍī 'Iyāḍ (d. 544/1149)

Chapter Fifteen Sayf al-Dīn al-Āmidī (d. 631/1233)

Chapter Sixteen Abū Isḥāq al-Shāṭibī (d. 790/1388)

Chapter Seventeen Aḥmad al-Wansharīsī (d. 914/1509)

Chapter Eighteen Ebu’s-su'ud (d. 982/1574)

Chapter Nineteen Muḥammad Bāqir al-Bihbihānī (d. 1205/1791)

Part Three Modern Period (1798–present)

Chapter Twenty al-Mahdī al-Wazzānī (d. 1342/1923)

Chapter Twenty-One Muḥammad Rashīd Riḍā (d. 1935)

Chapter Twenty-Two 'Abd al-Razzāq al-Sanhūrī Pasha (d. 1971)

Chapter Twenty-Three Ḥasan al-Turābī (1932–)

References

Index of Qur'ānic Verses

Index of Arabic Terms

General Index