Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Preface; -About Abū Hạnīfah; -About this book; -Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: background to the first development of the law; -The importance of the law in Islam; -After the death of the Prophet; -The emergence of Islamic scholars; -Scholars as judges and jurisconsults; -'Qurʼān and Sunnah': a clarification; 2 His life; -Name and ancestry; -Early education; -Training in fiqh; -Reputation in hạdīth circles; -His teachers in hạdīth and fiqh; -His relations with the state; imprisonment and death; -His descendants
His livelihood and personal qualities-The view of contemporaries and peers; 3 His fiqh; -The Kufan school of fiqh; -Abū Hạnīfah and the Kufan school; -Sources and principles of his fiqh; -The Qurʼān and Sunnah and ijmāʻ; -Preference between hạdīth and qiyās; -- Ijmāʻ and qiyās; -- Istihṣān; -Characteristics of Abū Hạnīfah's fiqh; -- Ahl al-raʼy and ahl al-hạdīth; 4 His works and his students; -- Kalām (dogmatics and theology); -- Hạdīth; -His students: hạdīth specialists; -Jurists; 5 His achievement and legacy; -Abū Hạnīfah's fiqh: an overview; -Regional spread of the Hạnafī school
Developments of the fiqh works of the school-Development of usụ̄l al-fiqh in the Hạnafī school; -The modern period; -Postscript; 6 Sources and Further reading; -Sources; -Further reading: Abū Hạnīfah's life; -Abū Hạnīfah's fiqh; Bibliography; Index; -Qur'anic verses and Prophetic traditions cited; -Geographical terms; -Names of persons and groups; -Keywords, concepts, topics; -Transliterated words and phrases
Summary
Study the life and legacy of one of the greatest pioneers in the history of Islamic law
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-132) and index
