Custom in Islamic Law and Legal Theory

The Development of the Concepts of ?Urf and ??dah in the Islamic Legal Tradition

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).

This book is the first volume of a new series of original studies on Islamic law and
theology that clearly raise the bar for rigorous scholarship in the field of Islamic
Studies. The volumes of this series are chosen not only for their disciplined
methodology, exhaustive research, or academic authoritativeness, but for their
significant insight into the world of Islam as it was, is, and is likely to become. The
volumes are selected for their relevance to furtheringthe understanding ofthe
lived and the ...