Machine generated contents note: Introduction; Part I. Islamic Institutional Structures and Doubt, First/Seventh-Tenth/Sixteenth Centuries; 1. The God of severity and lenity; 2. The rise of doubt; Part II. Morality and Social Context, First/Seventh-Fifth/Eleventh Centuries; 3. Hierarchy and hudud laws; 4. Doubt as moral concern; Part III. The Jurisprudence of Doubt, Second/Eighth-Tenth/Sixteenth Century; 5. Early Doubt as an element of Islamic criminal law; 6. Sunni Doubt; Substantive, procedural, and interpretive doubt; Part IV. Interpretive authority, second/eighth-tenth/Sixteenth centuries; 7. Against Doubt; Strict textualism in opposition to doubt; 8. Shi'i Doubt, Dueling theories of delegation and interpretation; Conclusion: Doubt in comparative and contemporary context.
Doubt in Islamic law : a history of legal maxims, interpretation, and Islamic criminal law by Intisar A. Rabb. ISBN 9781107080997. Published by Cambridge University Press in 2015. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.