Ahmed El Shamsy's The Canonization of Islamic Law is a detailed history of the birth of classical Islamic law. It shows how Islamic law and its institutions eme

The Canonization of Islamic Law tells the story of the birth of classical Islamic law in the eighth and ninth centuries CE. It shows how an oral normative tradi

Ahmed El Shamsy's The Canonization of Islamic Law is a detailed history of the birth of classical Islamic law.

The people who selected, edited, and published the new print books on and about Islam exerted a huge influence on the resulting literary tradition. These unhera

Since the 1980s, Muslim women reformers have made great strides in critiquing and reinterpreting the Islamic tradition. Yet these achievements have not produced