CONTENTS

Preface vii-viii

I The Logic of Legal Reasoning in Religious and

Non-Religious Cultures: The Case of Islamic

Law and the Common Law 79-96

Cleveland State Law Review 34.

II Non-Analogical Arguments in Sunni Juridical

Qiyas 286-306

Arabica 36. Leiden, 1989

III Logic, Formal Arguments and Formalization of

Arguments in SunnT Jurisprudence 315-358

Arabica 37. Leiden, 1990

IV On Inductive Corroboration, Probability and

Certainty in SunnT Legal Thought 3-31

Islamic Law and Jurisprudence, ed. N.L. Heer.

Seattle & London, 1990

N Was the Gate of Ijtihad Closed? 3-41

International Journal of Middle East Studies 16.

New York, 1984

VI On the Origins of the Controversy about the

Existence of Mujtahids and the Gate of Ijtihad 129-141 Studia Islamica 63. Paris 1986

VII Was al-Shafi‘i the Master Architect of Islamic

J ur ispr udence? 587-605

International Journal of Middle East Studies 25.

New York, 1993

VIII On the Authoritativeness of Sunni Consensus 427-454

International Journal of Middle East Studies 18.

New York, 1986

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IX The Use and Abuse of Evidence: The Question of Provincial and Roman Influences on Early Islamic Law 1—36

Journal of the American Oriental Society 110: 79-91.

New York, 1989

X Notes on the Term Qarina in Islamic Legal

Discourse 1-15

Journal of the American Oriental Society 108: 475-80.

New York, 1988

XI The Primacy of the Qur’an in ShatibT’s Legal

Theory 69-90

Islamic Studies Presented to Charles J. Adams, eds W.B. Hallaq and D.P. Little. Leiden, 1991

XII Usui al-Fiqlv. Beyond Tradition 172-202

Journal of Islamic Studies 3. Oxford, 1992

Index of Arabic Terms 1-3

General Index 4-7

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