: the development of the concepts of Urf and Adah in the Islamic legal tradition
/ Ayman Shabana.
1st ed.
New York
: Palgrave Macmillan
, 2010.
xiv, 246 p.
; 21 cm.
Palgrave series in Islamic theology, law, and history
Based on author's doctoral dissertation--University of California, Los Angeles, 2009.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-239) and index.
Custom and Islamic law in modern scholarship -- Normative foundations of the concept of custom in the Islamic legal tradition -- From ʻĀdah to ʻUrf : theological foundations of the concept of custom as reflected in the debate over causality -- Custom between the theoretical school and the applied school -- The expansion of legal theory -- Custom and legal maxims al-Qawāʻid al-Fiqhiyyah -- Custom and the objectives of Sharīʻah : Maqāṣid al-Sharīʻah -- Custom, legal application, and the construction of reality.