Rabb, Intisar A., <br/><br/>
Doubt in Islamic law :  a history of legal Maxims, interpretation, and Islamic criminal law / 
Intisar A. Rabb. 
 - xiii, 414 pages ;  24 cm. 
 - Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization. .
<br/><br/> 'This book considers an important and largely neglected area of Islamic law by exploring how medieval Muslim jurists resolved criminal cases that could not be proven beyond a doubt, calling into question a controversial popular notion about Islamic law today, which is that Islamic law is a divine legal tradition that has little room for discretion or doubt, particularly in Islamic criminal law. 
<br/><br/>Bibliography : page 359-403 
<br/><br/>Introduction. pt. I. Islamic Institutional Structures and Doubt, First/Seventh-Tenth/Sixteenth Centuries. 1. The God of severity and lenity -- 2. The rise of doubt. pt. II. Morality and Social Context, First/Seventh-Fifth/Eleventh Centuries. 3. Hierarchy and Hudud laws --4. Doubt as moral concern. pt. III. The Jurisprudence of Doubt, Second/Eighth-Tenth/Sixteenth Centuries. 5. Early doubt : Doubt as an element of Islamic criminal law --6. Sunni Doubt : Substantive, procedural, and interpretive doubt. pt. IV. Interpretive Authority, Second/Eighth-Tenth/Sixteenth Centuries. 7. Against Doubt : Strict textualism in opposition to doubt --8. Shiʻi Doubt : Dueling theories of delegation and interpretation. Conclusion : doubt in comparative and contemporary context. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781107080997  RM478.40 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Criminal law (Islamic law)--Interpretation and construction<br/>Belief and doubt.<br/>Legal certainty.