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Ebu's-Su`ud: The Islamic Legal Tradition
Contributor(s): Imber, Colin (Author)
ISBN: 0804729271     ISBN-13: 9780804729277
Publisher: Stanford University Press
OUR PRICE:   $114.00  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: August 1997
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Annotation: " Colin Imber' s study of the sixteenth-century Ottoman Sheikh al-Islam, Ebu' s-Su' ud, the preeminent jurisconsult of the Ottoman Empire, is an illuminating and timely addition to a sparse, but growing, literature dedicated to this more proximate inheritance of the contemporary Islamic world." -- Comparative Studies in Society & History
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- History | Middle East - Turkey & Ottoman Empire
Dewey: 340.590
LCCN: 96070278
Series: Jurists: Profiles in Legal Theory
Physical Information: 1.17" H x 6.5" W x 9.52" (1.34 lbs) 304 pages
Themes:
- Religious Orientation - Islamic
- Cultural Region - Middle East
- Cultural Region - Turkey
 
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Publisher Description:
This biographical and intellectual study of a key figure in the history of Islamic Jurisprudence sets the legal problems in their social and historical context.