Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-8ctnn Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-25T18:51:53.567Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

DEVIN STEWART, Islamic Legal Orthodoxy: Twelve Shiite Responses to the Sunni Legal System (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1998). Pp. 289. $40.00 cloth.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2003

BRANNON WHEELER
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

Devin Stewart has written a thoroughly researched and closely argued analysis of how Twelver Shiעi legal theory developed in response to the institutionalization of Sunni law. He contends that the origins and history of Twelver Shiעi law, sparked by the vacuum in authority brought about by the Occultation of the twelfth imam, was motivated by the need to communicate and debate with Sunni jurists.

Type
Book Review
Information
International Journal of Middle East Studies , Volume 35 , Issue 1 , February 2003 , pp. 151 - 152
Copyright
2003 Cambridge University Press

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)