Lena Salaymeh, The Beginnings of Islamic Law: Late Antique Islamicate Legal Traditions

This is apparently a reworking of Salaymeh’s Ph.D. dissertation (UC Berkeley, 2012). As she describes her vantage point, “I engage in a postfoundationalist understanding of history that rejects the positivist methodologies of modernism and the nihilistic relativism of post-modernism. A postfoundati...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Christopher Melchert
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Columbia University Libraries 2018-11-01
Series:Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā
Online Access:https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/alusur/article/view/6869