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Routledge
272 Pages
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Routledge
272 Pages
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Routledge
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Lawyers, according to Edmund Burke, are bad historians. He was referring to an unwillingness, rather than an inaptitude, on the part of early nineteenth-century English lawyers to concern themselves with the past: for contemporary jurisprudence was a pure and isolated science wherein law appeared as a body of rules, based upon objective criteria, whose nature and very existence were independent of... Read more
INTRODUCTION, Part One THE GENESIS OF SHARrALAW, Part Two LEGAL DOCTRINE AND PRACTICE IN MEDIAEVAL ISLAM, Part Three ISLAMIC LAW IN MODERN TIMES, CONCLUSION, Glossary, Bibliography, Index
Biography
N. Coulson
