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100 1  El Shamsy, Ahmed,|d1976-|0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/
       names/n2013009659. 
245 14 The canonization of Islamic law :|ba social and 
       intellectual history /|cAhmed El Shamsy, The University of
       Chicago. 
264  1 New York, NY :|bCambridge University Press,|c2013. 
300    ix, 253 pages ;|c24 cm. 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent. 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia. 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier. 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-243) and 
       index. 
505 0  Acknowledgments -- Note on dates, places, and terms -- 
       Introduction -- I. Cultural remembrance transformed. 1. 
       Tradition under siege -- 2. Debates on Hadith and 
       consensus -- 3. From local community to universal canon --
       II. Community in crisis. 4. Status, power, and social 
       upheaval -- 5. Scholarship between persecution and 
       patronage -- III. Foundations for a new community. 6. 
       Authorship, transmission, and intertextuality -- 7. A 
       community of interpretation -- 8. Canonization beyond the 
       Shāfiʻī school -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index. 
520    "Tells the story of the birth of classical Islamic law in 
       the eight and ninth centuries CE. It shows how an oral 
       normative tradition embedded in communal practice was 
       transformed into a systematic legal science defined by 
       hermeneutic analysis of a clearly demarcated scriptural 
       canon. This transformation was inaugurated by the 
       innovative legal theory of Muhammad b. Idrīs al-Shāfiʻī 
       (d. 820 CE), and it took place against the background of a
       crisis of identity and religious authority in ninth-
       century Egypt. By tracing the formulation, reception, 
       interpretation, and spread of al-Shāfiʻī ideas, Ahmed El 
       Shamsy demonstrates how the canonization of scripture that
       lay at the heart of al-Shāfiʻī's theory formed the basis 
       for the emergence of legal hermeneutics, the formation of 
       the Sunni schools of law, and the creation of shared 
       methodological basis in Muslim thought"--Unedited summary 
       from book cover. 
650  0 Islamic law|xHistory.|0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/
       subjects/sh2008104954. 
650  0 Canonization.|0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/
       sh85019662. 
655  7 History.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01411628.