Sohaira Z. M. Siddiqui <br/><br/>
Law and Politics under the Abbasids:  An Intellectual Portrait of al-Juwayni 

 - 312 p.,  26 cm 
 - Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Politics, Patronage, and Scholarship in Nishapur -- Al-Juwaynī : Life of a Scholar -- Intellectual Fissures : The Ashʻarīs and the Mu'tazila -- The Epistemology of al-Juwaynī -- Certainty in Legal Sources : Ḥadīth -- Certainty in Legal Sources : ijmāʻ -- The Rise of Legal Uncertainty : Qiyās al-maʻná -- Coping with Legal Uncertainty : Qiyās al-Shabah -- The Search for Continuity :  al-Juwaynī's Political Thought -- Continuity, Custom, and Applied Epistemology in al-Juwaynī's Political Thought -- Conclusion. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781108721950 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Imām al-Ḥaramayn ʻAbd al-Malik ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Juwaynī 1028-1085 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Islamic law--History--To 1500<br/>Islamic law--Methodology<br/>Muslim scholars--Biography<br/>Abbasids