Islamic legal tradition: Legal History

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Islamic Law entry has following sections
Overview
The Fiqh Scholars.
The Growth of the Judiciary.
The Schools of Law.
The Distinction between Methods and Material.
Modern Developments.
Bibliography
Sources and Methodology of the Law
Sources.
Methodology.
Bibliography
Genres of Legal Literature
Furūʿ al-fiqh: The Discipline of Legal and Ethical Norms.
“School texts” (mutūn).
Commentaries (shurūḥ) and glosses (ḥ awāshī).
Legal expertise and religious guidance (fatwa).
Books of legal devices (ḥiyal) and handbooks for notaries (shurūṭ).
Treatises (rasāʾil).
The Theory of the Sources of the Law and of Legal Argumentation (Uṣūl al-f iqh).
The “Principles of the Fiqh” (Qawāʿid).
Bibliography
Legal and Ethical Qualifications
The Five Categories of the Fiqh.
Legal and Ethical Obligations in Different Legal Spheres.
Transactions.
The Claims of God and of Men.
Bibliography
Spheres of the Law in the Fiqh
The Structure of the Fiqh.
Hadd and Retribution.
The Commercial Sphere.
Marriage and Family Law.
Differentiation of Spheres.
Bibliography
Transmission and Authenticity of the Reports from the Prophet
The Sunna, Second Source of Islamic Law.
Transmission and Authenticity.
Western Scholars’ Views.
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