English | 261 pages | Palgrave Macmillan; 1st ed. 2010 edition (January 19, 2011) | 134929022X | PDF | 5.38 Mb
This book explores the relationship between custom and Islamic law and seeks to uncover the role of custom in the construction of legal rulings. On a deeper level, however, it deals with the perennial problem of change and continuity in the Islamic legal tradition (or any tradition for that matter).