This upper-level Companion provides scholars and postgraduate students with a
comprehensive and authoritative guide to current research in the thriving area
of Islamic law. A distinguished group of authors provide an overview of their
particular specialty, reflect on past and current thinking and also point to
directions for future research. The book presents classical Islamic law through
a historiographical introduction to and analysis of the Western scholarship. The
authors address key debates and provoke new ways of thinking about long-standing
issues in this increasingly relevant and popular discipline.The Companion is
divided into four parts. The first section offers an introduction to the history
of Islamic law as well