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1. Original Islam

   Malik and the Madhhab of Madina

   By Yasin Dutton

   Series: Culture and Civilization in the Middle East

   Original Islam investigates the primacy of Madinan Islam and the madhhab (school of law) of its main exponent, Malik ibn Anas. It contains an annotated translation of Intisar al-faqir al-salik li-tarjih madhhab al-Imam al-kabir Malik, which was written by al-Ra'i, a fifteenth-century...

   Published June 7th 2009 by Routledge
2. The Origins of Islamic Law

   The Qur'an, the Muwatta' and Madinan Amal

   By Yasin Dutton

   Series: Culture and Civilization in the Middle East

   If the Qur'an is the first written formulation of Islam in general, Malik's Muwatta' is arguably the first written formulation of the Islam-in-practice that becomes Islamic law. This book considers the methods used by Malik in the Muwatta' to derive the judgements of the law from the Qur'an and is...

   Published July 17th 2002 by Routledge