Islamic school of law evolution, devolution, and progress

"This volume is the outcome of the Third International Conference on Islamic Legal Studies, held May 4-6, 2000 at Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Mass."--P. [vii].

Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-289) and index.

The madhhab in Islamic legal theory / Bernard Weiss -- Al-Awzāʻī and Sufyān al-Thawrī: the Umayyad madhhab? / Steven C. Judd -- Continuity and change in Islamic law: the concept of madhhab and the dimensions of legal disagreement in Hanafi scholarship of the tenth century / Eyyup Said Kaya -- The introduction of Mālik's teachings in al-Andalus / Alfonso Carmona -- Proto-Malikis, Malikis, and Reformed Malikis in al-Andalus / Maribel Fierro -- Madhhab and Madrasa in eleventh-century Baghdad / Daphna Ephrat -- Fidelity, cohesion, and conformity within madhhabs in Zangid and Ayyubid Syria / Daniella Talmon-Heller -- The beginnings of the Zahiri madhhab in al-Andalus / Camilla Adang -- Intra-madhhab Ikhtilāf and the late classical Imami Shiite conception of the madhhab / Robert Gleave -- What does it mean to be an official madhhab? Hanafism and the Ottoman Empire / Rudolph Peters -- Madhhabs and modernities / Brinkley Messick -- Islam and nationalism in Indonesia: forging an Indonesian madhhab / Mark E. Cammack -- Inter-madhhab surfing, neo-Ijtihad, and faith-based movement leaders / Ihsan Yilmaz.