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Aron Zysow's 1984 PhD dissertation, 'The Economy of Certainty,' remains the most important treatment of Islamic legal theory in Western scholarship. It continues to be widely read and cited, and is published here in full with updated references, further reflections by the author, and with the addition of a nine-page Foreword by Robert Gleave.
List of contents
Series Editor's Preface Foreword Author's Preface Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction Chapter 1 - The Authentication of Prophetic Traditions Chapter 2 - Interpretation Chapter 3 - Consensus Chapter 4 - Analogy Chapter 5 - IJTIHAD Epilogue Bibliography Works Cited in the Addenda and Preface Table of Page Correspondences Index of Qur'an Citations Index of Arabic Terms and Proper Names
About the author
Aron Zysow received his A.B. (Classics), Ph.D. (Islamic Studies), and J.D. from Harvard. From 2000 to 2005 he served as Research Associate for the Islamic Legal Studies Program at Harvard Law School. Before that he taught Arabic and Islamic Studies at the University of Washington in Seattle and Washington University in St. Louis and commercial law at Baruch College, City University of New York. Prior to his academic career he worked as an attorney in New York City. His main academic interests are Islamic law, particularly legal theory, and theology. He is a former fellow of The Institute for the Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia (TRI) at Princeton University, where he also taught in the Department of Near Eastern Studies.
Summary
Aron Zysow's 1984 PhD dissertation, 'The Economy of Certainty,' remains the most important treatment of Islamic legal theory in Western scholarship. It continues to be widely read and cited, and is published here in full with updated references, further reflections by the author, and with the addition of a nine-page Foreword by Robert Gleave.
