Doubt in Islamic Law : A History of Legal Maxims, Interpretation, and Islamic Criminal Law (Hardcover)

Introduction; Part I. Institutional Structures and Doubt, Seventh?Sixteenth Century CE: 1. The God of severity and lenity; 2. The rise of doubt; Part II. Morality and Social Context, Eighth?Eleventh Century CE: 3. Hierarchy and hudud laws, eighth?ninth century CE; 4. Doubt as moral discomfort, tenth?eleventh century CE; Part III. The Jurisprudence of Doubt, Eighth?Sixteenth Century CE: 5. Doubt as an element of Islamic criminal law, eighth?eleventh century CE; 6. Substantive, procedural, and interpretive doubt, eleventh?sixteenth century CE; 7. Strict textualism as a limitation on doubt: Sunni opponents, eighth?eleventh century CE; 8. Dueling theories of delegation and interpretation: Shi'i doubt, tenth?sixteenth century CE; Conclusion: doubt in comparative and contemporary context.