Series Editor's Preface
Foreword
Author's Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. The Authentication of Prophetic Traditions
2. Interpretation
3. Consensus
4. Analogy
5. IJTIHÄD
Epilogue
Bibliography
Works Cited in the Addenda and Preface
Table of Page Correspondences
Index of Qur'än Citations
Index of Arabic Terms and Proper Names
Aron Zysow received his A.B. (Classics), Ph.D. (Islamic Studies), and J.D. from Harvard. From 2000 to 2005 he served as Research Associate for the Islamic Legal Studies Program at Harvard Law School. Before that he taught Arabic and Islamic Studies at the University of Washington in Seattle and Washington University in St. Louis and commercial law at Baruch College, City University of New York. Prior to his academic career he worked as an attorney in New York City. His main academic interests are Islamic law, particularly legal theory, and theology. He is a former fellow of The Institute for the Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia (TRI) at Princeton University, where he also taught in the Department of Near Eastern Studies.
'The importance of The Economy of Certainty to the study of Islamic
legal theory is a tribute to the precision employed at its
inception…. In many disciplines, thirty-year-old research borders
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retains both its originality and its authority…. It has been read
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in any western language.' (Marc Herman, Center for Jewish Law and
Contemporary Civilization)
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