The Origins of Islamic Jurisprudence: Meccan Fiqh Before the Classical Schools Harald Motzki
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Generations, recording everything people were saying about the early history of Islam. Motzki, The Origins of Islamic Jurisprudence: Meccan Fiqh before the Classical Schools (Leiden, 2002). HARALD MOTZKI, The Origins of Islamic Jurisprudence: Meccan Fiqh before the Classical Schools, trans. Roman law (the law applied in Byzantine Empire was Roman law) developed in the Beirut, Istanbul (Constantinople) centuries long before Islam. But the fact is that not many of the orientalists were specialized in Islamic Jurisprudence and Fiqh area; there were a few of them only in the West, definitely not many in America. Katz (Leiden: Brill, 2002), 1-49; idem, “Dating . Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh) covers two main areas: Sunni schools of jurisprudence are each named after the classical jurist who taught them. Harald Motzki, The Origins of Islamic Jurisprudence: Meccan Fiqh before the Classical. 16 Harald Motzki, The Origins of Islamic Jurisprudence Meccan Fiqh before the Classical Schools (Trans. Katz; Boston: Brill, 2002), 180. On the Meccan legal trend, see H. Fiqh was Abu Hanifa himself was not really an Arab, lived out side of Medina and Mecca that is in Kufa, city south of Iraq, and Baghdad.